{"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/kjv/james/1","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T10:38:50.988Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","book":"James","bookSlug":"james","chapter":1,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":null,"nextChapter":2,"totalChapters":5,"totalVerses":27},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Knowing <i>this</i>, that the trying of your faith worketh patience."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"But let patience have <i>her</i> perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all <i>men</i> liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"A double minded man <i>is</i> unstable in all his ways."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Blessed <i>is</i> the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Do not err, my beloved brethren."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth <i>therein</i>, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion <i>is</i> vain."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, <i>and</i> to keep himself unspotted from the world."}],"citation":{"inline":"James 1 (KJV)","markdown":"[James 1](https://primebible.com/kjv/james/1)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/james/1 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}