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1 Some ancient authorities omit then.

2 Gr. groaning.

3 Or, by Gr. in.

4 Many ancient authorities read work.

5 Many ancient

authorities

read you.

own blood, suffered without the gate. Let us there-13
fore go forth unto him without the camp, bearing his
reproach. For we have not here an abiding city, but 14
we seek after the city which is to come. Through him 15
'then let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God con-
tinually, that is, the fruit of lips which make confes-
sion to his name. But to do good and to communi- 16
cate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well
pleased. Obey them that have the rule over you, and 17
submit to them: for they watch in behalf of your souls,
as they that shall give account; that they may do this
with joy, and not with grief: for this were unprofit-
able for you.

Pray for us: for we are persuaded that we have 18 a good conscience, desiring to live honourably in all things. And I exhort you the more exceedingly to do 19 this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.

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Now the God of peace, who brought again from the 20 dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, even our Lord Jesus, make 21 you perfect in every good thing to do his will, working in us that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

But I exhort you, brethren, bear with the word of 22 Gr. unto the exhortation: for I have written unto you in few words. Know ye that our brother Timothy hath been set at 23 liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.

ages of the ages.

7 Or, The brethren from

Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all 24 the saints. They of Italy salute you.

Grace be with vou all. Amen.

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THE EPISTLE OF

JAMES.

bondservant.

JAMES, a 'servant of God and of the Lord Jesus 1 Gr. Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, 2 greeting.

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2 Gr. wisheth

Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into joy. 3 manifold temptations; knowing that the proving of Or, trials 4 your faith worketh * patience. And let patience have Or, its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

stedfastness

5 But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; 6 and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that doubteth is like the 7 surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any Or, that 8 thing of the Lord; a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways.

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But let the brother of low degree glory in his high 10 estate and the rich, in that he is made low: because 11 as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and 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 goings.

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Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he hath been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them that 13 love him. Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God 'cannot be tempted with 14 ® evil, and he himself tempteth no man: but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, 15 and enticed. Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bring

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a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways,

shall receive any thing of

the Lord.

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1 Or, giving

2 Or, Know

ye

3 Or, malice

4 Or, inborn

5 Gr. the face of his birth.

6 Or, seemeth to be

7 Or, God and our Father

8 Or, do ye, in accepting persons, hold the faith glory?

9 Or, assembly

eth forth death. Be not deceived, my beloved bre- 16 thren. Every good 'gift and every perfect gift is 17 from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning. Of his own will he brought us forth 18 by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

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Ye know this, my beloved brethren. But let every 19 man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: for 20 the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Wherefore putting away all filthiness and over-21 – flowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the * implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But 22 be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves. For if any one is a hearer of the 23 word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror: for he beholdeth himself, 24 and goeth away, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But he that looketh into the 25 perfect law, the law of liberty, and so continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth, but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing. If any man 26 "thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man's religion is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before our God 27 and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

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My brethren, hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus 2 Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. For 2 if there come into your synagogue a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, and there come in also a poor man in vile clothing; and ye have regard to him that 3 weareth the fine clothing, and say, Sit thou here in a good place; and ye say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or sit under my footstool; are ye not divided 11 in your own mind, and become judges with evil 11 Or, among thoughts? Hearken, my beloved brethren; did not 5 God choose them that are poor as to the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him? But ye have dis- 6

10 Or, do ye not make distinctions

yourselves

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honoured the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgement-seats?

was called

7 Do not they blaspheme the honourable name 'by the Gr. which 8 which ye are called? Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, upon you. according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neigh9 bour as thyself, ye do well: but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as 10 transgressors. For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is become guilty 11 of all. For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou dost not commit adultery, but killest, thou art become a transgressor 12 of the law. So speak ye, and so do, as men that are to 13 be judged by a law of liberty. For judgement is without mercy to him that hath shewed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgement.

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What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save 15 him? If a brother or sister be naked, and in lack of 16 daily food, and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit? 17 Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself. 182 Yea, a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have 2 Or, But works: shew me thy faith apart from thy works, and I someone

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will say

ancient authorities

one God.

thou

19 by my works will shew thee my faith. Thou believest that God is one; thou doest well: the demons also Some 20 believe, and shudder. But wilt thou know, O vain 21 man, that faith apart from works is barren? Was not read there is Abraham our father justified by works, in that he 22 offered up Isaac his son upon the altar? Thou Or, Seest seest that faith wrought with his works, and by works perfect? 23 was faith made perfect; and the scripture was fulfilled which saith, And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness; and he was 24 called the friend of God. Ye see that by works a man 25 is justified, and not only by faith. And in like manner was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out 26 another way? For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

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Be not many of you teachers, my brethren, knowing 3 1 Gr. greater. that we shall receive 'heavier judgement. For in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also. Now if we put the horses' bridles into 3 their mouths, that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also. Behold, the ships also, though 4 they are so great, and are driven by rough winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, whither the impulse of the steersman willeth. So the tongue also 5 is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, 2 how much wood is kindled by how small a fire! And 6 the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell. For every kind of beasts and birds, of 7 members that creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed 'by mankind: but the tongue can 8 no man tame; it is a restless evil, it is full of deadly iniquity, the poison. Therewith bless we the Lord and Father; 9

2 Or, how great a forest

3 Or, a fire,
that world
of iniquity:
the tongue
is among our

which &c.

4 Or, that

world of

tongue, is

among our

members

that which

&c.

5 Or, birth

6 Gr. nature.
7 Or, unto
8 Gr. the
human
nature.

Or, animal

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and therewith curse we men, who are made after the likeness of God: out of the same mouth cometh forth 10 blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Doth the fountain send forth from the 11 same opening sweet water and bitter? can a fig tree, 12 my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? neither can salt water yield sweet.

Who is wise and understanding among you? let 13 him shew by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction 14 in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. This wisdom is not a wisdom that cometh down from 15

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Or, natural above, but is earthly, sensual, 10 devilish. For where 16 jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every 10 Gr. demo- vile deed. But the wisdom that is from above is first 17 pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be intreated, full Or, doubt of mercy and good fruits, without "variance, without

niacal.

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fulness

Or, partiality

12 2 Or, by

hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in 18 peace 12 for them that make peace.

Whence come wars and whence come fightings among 4 you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that

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