Popular Bible Verses from James 1

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Count it all joy, my brothers, when you experience various trials, because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given to him.

So then, my beloved brothers, everyone should be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger.

And let endurance have its full effect, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

But be doers of the word and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those who love him.

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away, and then immediately forgets what he looks like.

Pure and undefiled religion before God our Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

No one should say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God is not tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. But each person is tempted when he is drawn away and enticed by his own evil desires.

The lowly brother should rejoice in being exalted