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Philippians 4:13
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Isaiah 60:1

ARISE, shine; for thy light is come,
and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.

Psalm 27:14

Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and He shall
strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.

2 Timothy 3:16

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The General Epistle of

James

Faith without works cannot be called faith. "Faith without works is dead" (2:26), and a dead faith is worse than no faith at all. Faith must work; it must produce; it must be visible. Verbal faith is not enough; mental faith is insufficient. Faith must be there, but it must be more. It must inspire action. Throughout his epistle to Jewish believers, James integrates true faith and everyday practical experience by stressing that true faith must manifest itself in works of faith.
   Faith endures trials. Trials come and go, but a strong faith will face them head-on and develop endurance. Faith understands temptations. It will not allow us to consent to our lust and slide into sin. Faith obeys the Word. It will not merely hear and not do. Faith produces doers. Faith harbors no prejudice. For James, faith and favoritism cannot coexist. Faith displays itself in works. Faith is more than mere words; it is more than knowledge; it is demonstrated by obedience; and it overtly responds to the promises of God. Faith controls the tongue. This small but immensely powerful part of the body must be held in check. Faith can do it. Faith acts wisely. It gives us the ability to choose wisdom that is heavenly and to shun wisdom that is earthly. Faith produces separation from the world and submission to God. It provides us with the ability to resist the Devil and humbly draw near to God. Finally, faith waits patiently for the coming of the Lord. Through trouble and trial it stifles complaining.
   The name Ialobas (James) in 1:1 is the basis for the early title Iakobou Epistole, "Epistle of James." Iakonos is the Greek form of the Hebrew name Jacob, a Jewish name common in the first century.
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Chapter 1

  1. JAMES, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
  2. My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
  3. Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
  4. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
  5. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
  6. 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.
  7. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
  8. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
  9. Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
  10. But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
  11. 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.
  12. Blessed is 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.
  13. 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:
  14. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
  15. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
  16. Do not err, my beloved brethren.
  17. 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.
  18. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
  19. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
  20. For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
  21. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
  22. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
  23. 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:
  24. For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
  25. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
  26. If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
  27. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
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