{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/dbt/james/1","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T03:34:54.003Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"James","bookSlug":"james","chapter":1,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":null,"nextChapter":2,"totalChapters":5,"totalVerses":27},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"James, bondman of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the dispersion, greeting."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various temptations,"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"knowing that the proving of your faith works endurance."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"But let endurance have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"But if any one of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all freely and reproaches not, and it shall be given to him:"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"but let him ask in faith, nothing doubting. For he that doubts is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed about;"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"for let not that man think that he shall receive anything from the Lord;"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"But let the brother of low degree glory in his elevation,"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"and the rich in his humiliation, because as the grass's flower he will pass away."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"For the sun has risen with its burning heat, and has withered the grass, and its flower has fallen, and the comeliness of its look has perished: thus the rich also shall wither in his goings."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for, having been proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which He has promised to them that love him."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Let no man, being tempted, say, I am tempted of God. For God cannot be tempted by evil things, and himself tempts no one."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"But every one is tempted, drawn away, and enticed by his own lust;"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"then lust, having conceived, gives birth to sin; but sin fully completed brings forth death."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Do not err, my beloved brethren."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom is no variation nor shadow of turning."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"According to his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a certain first-fruits of his creatures."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"So that, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"for man's wrath does not work God's righteousness."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Wherefore, laying aside all filthiness and abounding of wickedness, accept with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, beguiling yourselves."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"For if any man be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like to a man considering his natural face in a mirror:"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"for he has considered himself and is gone away, and straightway he has forgotten what he was like."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"But he that fixes his view on the perfect law, that of liberty, and abides in it, being not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, he shall be blessed in his doing."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"If any one think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is vain."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself unspotted from the world."}],"citation":{"inline":"James 1 (DBT)","markdown":"[James 1](https://primebible.com/dbt/james/1)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/james/1 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}