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Iacobus Dei et Domini nostri Iesu Christi servus duodecimtribubus quae sunt in dispersione salutem

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omne gaudium existimate fratres mei cum in temptationibusvariis incideritis

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scientes quod probatio fidei vestrae patientiam operatur

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patientia autem opus perfectum habeat ut sitis perfecti etintegri in nullo deficientes

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si quis autem vestrum indiget sapientiam postulet a Deo quidat omnibus affluenter et non inproperat et dabitur ei

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postulet autem in fide nihil haesitans qui enim haesitatsimilis est fluctui maris qui a vento movetur et circumfertur

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non ergo aestimet homo ille quod accipiat aliquid a Domino

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vir duplex animo inconstans in omnibus viis suis

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glorietur autem frater humilis in exaltatione sua

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dives autem in humilitate sua quoniam sicut flos faenitransibit

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exortus est enim sol cum ardore et arefecit faenum et floseius decidit et decor vultus eius deperiit ita et dives initineribus suis marcescet

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beatus vir qui suffert temptationem quia cum probatusfuerit accipiet coronam vitae quam repromisit Deus diligentibusse

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nemo cum temptatur dicat quoniam a Deo temptor Deus enimintemptator malorum est ipse autem neminem temptat

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unusquisque vero temptatur a concupiscentia sua abstractuset inlectus

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dein concupiscentia cum conceperit parit peccatum peccatumvero cum consummatum fuerit generat mortem

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nolite itaque errare fratres mei dilectissimi

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omne datum optimum et omne donum perfectum desursum estdescendens a Patre luminum apud quem non est transmutatio necvicissitudinis obumbratio

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voluntarie genuit nos verbo veritatis ut simus initiumaliquod creaturae eius

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scitis fratres mei dilecti sit autem omnis homo velox adaudiendum tardus autem ad loquendum et tardus ad iram

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ira enim viri iustitiam Dei non operatur

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propter quod abicientes omnem inmunditiam et abundantiammalitiae in mansuetudine suscipite insitum verbum quod potestsalvare animas vestras

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estote autem factores verbi et non auditores tantumfallentes vosmet ipsos

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quia si quis auditor est verbi et non factor hicconparabitur viro consideranti vultum nativitatis suae inspeculo

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consideravit enim se et abiit et statim oblitus est qualisfuerit

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qui autem perspexerit in lege perfecta libertatis etpermanserit non auditor obliviosus factus sed factor operis hicbeatus in facto suo erit

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si quis autem putat se religiosum esse non refrenanslinguam suam sed seducens cor suum huius vana est religio

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religio munda et inmaculata apud Deum et Patrem haec estvisitare pupillos et viduas in tribulatione eorum inmaculatumse custodire ab hoc saeculo

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James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

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My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

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Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

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But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

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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.

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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.

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For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

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A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

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Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:

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But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

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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.

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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.

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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:

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But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

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Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

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Do not err, my beloved brethren.

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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.

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Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

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Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

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For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

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Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

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But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

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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:

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For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

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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.

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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.

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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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