IAKOVOU 1
1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Ihsou Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the dispersion, greeting. 2 Consider it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4 Let endurance have its perfect work, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him. 6 But ask in faith, with no doubting; for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed. 7 For let not that man think that he shall receive anything from the Lord. 8 He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. 9 But the humble brother shall glory in his exaltation; 10 but the rich in his humiliation; for like a flower of grass he shall pass away. 11 For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the grass, and its flower falls, and the beauty of its face perishes. So the rich man will fade away in his ways. 12 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. 13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. 14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away and enticed by his own desire. 15 Then desire brings forth sin, and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death. 16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variation or shadow of turning. 18 He willed to beget us in the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. 19 Therefore, 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 Therefore laying aside all filthiness and all excess of wickedness, receive with meekness the innate word, which is able to save your souls. 22 And be doers of the word, and not hearers only, foolishly. 23 For if he be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, this man knoweth his own nature in a mirror: 24 For he considereth himself, and is freed, and straightway walketh in that which he was. 25 But he that entereth into the perfect law of liberty, and abideth therein, he being not a hearer of the law, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his doing. 26 If any man among you seem to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his own heart, this man's religion is vain. 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

IAKOVOU 2
1 My brothers, do not hold the faith of our Lord Ihsou Christ of glory with partiality. 2 For if a man wearing fine clothes with a gold ring comes into your assembly, and a poor man in filthy clothes also comes in, 3 and you pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say to him, ‘Sit here in a good place,’ and say to the poor man, ‘Stand over there,’ or ‘Sit here under my footstool.’ 4 And you have not distinguished yourselves, but have become judges of evil thoughts. 5 Hearken, my beloved brothers. Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to those who love him? 6 But you have despised the poor. Do not the rich lord it over you, and use you as judges? 7 Do not they blaspheme the good name by which you are called? 8 If you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself,’ you do well. 9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being judged by the law as transgressors. 10 For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all. 11 For he who said, “You shall not commit adultery,” also said, “You shall not murder.” But if you do not commit adultery, you have become a transgressor of the law. 12 So speak and so do, as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty. 13 For the judgment of the wicked is without mercy to the one who has not done mercy; and mercy boasts of judgment. 14 What does it profit, my brothers, if a man says he has faith but has no works? Can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of this food, 16 and you say to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” but do not give them the things that are needed for the body. What good is that? 17 So faith, if it does not have works, is dead, being alone. 18 But he will say to them, “You have faith, and I have works; show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.” 19 Do you believe that there is one God? You do well; even the demons believe and tremble. 20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? 22 You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected? 23 And the scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness, and he was called the friend of God. 24 You see that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only. 25 In the same way, was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she received the angels and sent them out another way? 26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

IAKOVOU 3
1 Be not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. 2 For we all stumble many times. If anyone stumbles in word, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also. 3 Behold, we put bits into horses' mouths to discipline them, and we turn their whole bodies. 4 Behold, even ships, though they are so long-suffering and driven by fierce winds, are steered by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot wishes. 5 So also the tongue is a little member, and yet it is great. Behold, a little fire kindles a wormwood. 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. So is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beast, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of sea creatures, is tamed and cannot be tamed by the nature of man. 8 But the tongue can no man tame: it is an unruly evil, a deadly poison. 9 With it we bless God and the Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the likeness of God. 10 Out of the same mouth cometh blessing and cursing. It is not right, my brethren, for these things to be so. 11 Does not a fountain send forth from the same mouth both sweet and bitter? 12 Can a fig tree, my brethren, produce olive oil, or a vine figs? So can no fountain produce salt water and sweet water. 13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him shew forth his works out of a good turn of mind in the beginning of wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter jealousy and envy in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. 15 This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. 16 For where jealousy and envy are, there is disorder and every evil deed. 17 But the wisdom that comes from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. 18 But the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for those who make peace.

IAKOVOU 4
1 Where do wars and fightings come from among you? It is not from your lusts that war in your members. 2 You desire and do not have; you kill and envy, but cannot obtain; you fight and war, but do not have, because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your lusts. 4 Adulteresses and adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 5 Or do you think that the scripture says in vain, “The spirit that dwells in us lusts after envy?” 6 But the greater give grace; for he says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God; resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Be afflicted and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will lift you up. 11 Do not speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. 12 There is one lawgiver who is able to save and to destroy; who are you to judge another? 13 Now those who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city and build a house there, and we will buy and sell and make a profit,’ 14 and you do not know what tomorrow will bring. For what is your life? for it is a vapor that appears for a little while, and then vanishes away. 15 Instead of saying to yourselves, If the Lord wills, we shall live, and do this or that. 16 But now you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil. 17 For to do good and not do it is sin.

IAKOVOU 5
1 Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for your miseries that are coming on you. 2 Your wealth has rotted away, and your clothes have become rottenness. 3 Your gold and silver are rotting away, and their rust will be a witness against you, and it will eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded up your treasures for the last days. 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who despised your land, which you have robbed, cry out, and the oxen of the harvest have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts. 5 You have nourished yourselves on the earth, and have been wasted; you have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter; 6 you have condemned, you have murdered the righteous; he does not stand against you. 7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer receives the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it until it receives the early and latter rain. 8 Be patient also, strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near. 9 Do not grumble against one another, brothers, lest you be condemned; behold, the judge stands at the door. 10 Take the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord, as an example of suffering and patience. 11 Behold, we count them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job and seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful. 12 Above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath. But let your yes be yes, and your no, no, so that you may not fall into judgment. 13 Is anyone among you suffering? I pray. I comfort him. I sing. 14 Is any among you sick? Call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the one who prays, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he has committed sins, he shall be forgiven. 16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. 17 Elijah was a man with a kindred spirit like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months. 18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. 19 Brothers, if any of you err from the truth, and you turn him back, 20 let him know that he who turns the sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.