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James 1:1-27 (AMP)

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¹ JAMES, A servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes scattered abroad : Greetings (rejoice)! ² Consider it wholly joyful, my brethren, whenever you are enveloped in or encounter trials of any sort or fall into various temptations. ³ Be assured and understand that the trial and proving of your faith bring out endurance and steadfastness and patience. ⁴ But let endurance and steadfastness and patience have full play and do a thorough work, so that you may be perfectly and fully developed , lacking in nothing. ⁵ If any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask of the giving God to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or faultfinding, and it will be given him. ⁶ Only it must be in faith that he asks with no wavering (no hesitating, no doubting). For the one who wavers (hesitates, doubts) is like the billowing surge out at sea that is blown hither and thither and tossed by the wind. ⁷ For truly, let not such a person imagine that he will receive anything from the Lord, ⁸ a man of two minds (hesitating, dubious, irresolute), unstable and unreliable and uncertain about everything . ⁹ Let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his elevation , ¹⁰ And the rich in being humbled , because like the flower of the grass he will pass away. ¹¹ For the sun comes up with a scorching heat and parches the grass; its flower falls off and its beauty fades away. Even so will the rich man wither and die in the midst of his pursuits. ¹² Blessed (happy, to be envied) is the man who is patient under trial and stands up under temptation, for when he has stood the test and been approved, he will receive crown of life which God has promised to those who love Him. ¹³ Let no one say when he is tempted, I am tempted from God; for God is incapable of being tempted by evil and He Himself tempts no one. ¹⁴ But every person is tempted when he is drawn away, enticed and baited by his own evil desire (lust, passions). ¹⁵ Then the evil desire, when it has conceived, gives birth to sin, and sin, when it is fully matured, brings forth death. ¹⁶ Do not be misled, my beloved brethren. ¹⁷ Every good gift and every perfect (free, large, full) gift is from above; it comes down from the Father of all light, in Whom there can be no variation or shadow cast by His turning . ¹⁸ And it was of His own will that He gave us birth by Word of Truth, so that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures . ¹⁹ Understand , my beloved brethren. Let every man be quick to hear , slow to speak, slow to take offense and to get angry. ²⁰ For man's anger does not promote the righteousness God . ²¹ So get rid of all uncleanness and the rampant outgrowth of wickedness, and in a humble (gentle, modest) spirit receive and welcome the Word which implanted and rooted contains the power to save your souls. ²² But be doers of the Word , and not merely listeners to it, betraying yourselves . ²³ For if anyone only listens to the Word without obeying it and being a doer of it, he is like a man who looks carefully at his natural face in a mirror; ²⁴ For he thoughtfully observes himself, and then goes off and promptly forgets what he was like. ²⁵ But he who looks carefully into the faultless law, the of liberty, and is faithful to it and perseveres in looking into it, being not a heedless listener who forgets but an active doer , he shall be blessed in his doing (his life of obedience). ²⁶ If anyone thinks himself to be religious (piously observant of the external duties of his faith) and does not bridle his tongue but deludes his own heart, this person's religious service is worthless (futile, barren). ²⁷ External religious worship that is pure and unblemished in the sight of God the Father is this: to visit and help and care for the orphans and widows in their affliction and need, and to keep oneself unspotted and uncontaminated from the world.


This passage relates to the following topic(s):
(v. 2) Suffering / Hardship - Consider it a joy to face trials
(v. 2) Joy / Rejoicing - Consider it a joy to face trials
(v. 3) Testing / Tests - Testing used to develop perseverance
(v. 3) Patience / Perseverance / Standing Firm - Perseverance comes from the testing of your faith
(v. 4) Patience / Perseverance / Standing Firm - Perseverance comes from the testing of your faith
(v. 4) Growth / Maturity - Perseverance brings maturity
(v. 5) Wisdom / Understanding / Stupidity - Pray for wisdom
(v. 5) Prayer - Pray for wisdom
(v. 6) Prayer - Ask and do not doubt
(v. 12) Patience / Perseverance / Standing Firm - Will receive the crown of life
(v. 13) Temptation - God can not be tempted
(v. 13) Temptation - God does not tempt anyone
(v. 14) Temptation - Temptation comes from our evil desires
(v. 17) Consistency - God does not change - like shifting shadows
(v. 19) Speaking / Gossip / Lying / Slander - Be slow to speak
(v. 19) Speaking / Gossip / Lying / Slander - Be quick to listen
(v. 19) Anger / Fits of Rage / Bitterness - Be slow to become angry
(v. 20) Anger / Fits of Rage / Bitterness - Be slow to become angry
(v. 22) Obedience - Do what the word says
(v. 23) Obedience - Do what the word says
(v. 24) Obedience - Do what the word says
(v. 25) Obedience - Do what the word says
(v. 26) Speaking / Gossip / Lying / Slander - Does not keep a tight rein on tongue - religion is worthless
(v. 27) Giving / Contribution - Pure and faultless - look after widows/orphans

This passage relates to the following question(s):
(v. 5) Does God give freely? Ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault
(v. 13) Does God tempt men or not? God does not tempt anyone
(v. 17) Does God change or not? Father does not change like shifting shadows

This passage is referenced in the following quiet time(s):
(v. 1) Life to the Full - Crown not Frown (part 1) (2010-03-27)
(v. 2) Mind Change - Challenge (2011-11-04)
(v. 2) 30 Days at the Cross - Problems or Possibilities (2008-08-08)
(v. 2) Purpose Driven Life - Seeing Life from God's View (2008-05-26)
(v. 2) NT Commands (part VI) (2011-03-13)
(v. 2) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 2) Day 9 - Trials of Many Kinds (2011-12-12)
(v. 2) Heart of Maturity (Methods of Maturing) (2010-04-29)
(v. 2) Life to the Full - Crown not Frown (part 1) (2010-03-27)
(v. 3) NT Commands (part VI) (2011-03-13)
(v. 3) Day 9 - Trials of Many Kinds (2011-12-12)
(v. 3) Mind Change - Challenge (2011-11-04)
(v. 3) 30 Days at the Cross - Problems or Possibilities (2008-08-08)
(v. 3) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 3) Life to the Full - Crown not Frown (part 1) (2010-03-27)
(v. 3) Heart of Maturity (Methods of Maturing) (2010-04-29)
(v. 3) Purpose Driven Life - Seeing Life from God's View (2008-05-26)
(v. 4) Purpose Driven Life - Dont Get In A Hurry (2008-06-23)
(v. 4) Life to the Full - Crown not Frown (part 1) (2010-03-27)
(v. 4) Heart of Maturity (Methods of Maturing) (2010-04-29)
(v. 4) Day 9 - Trials of Many Kinds (2011-12-12)
(v. 4) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 4) 30 Days at the Cross - Problems or Possibilities (2008-08-08)
(v. 4) Mind Change - Challenge (2011-11-04)
(v. 5) Day 9 - Trials of Many Kinds (2011-12-12)
(v. 5) Trusting God - Samuel (2010-11-29)
(v. 5) Life to the Full - Crown not Frown (part 1) (2010-03-27)
(v. 6) Trusting God - Samuel (2010-11-29)
(v. 6) Life to the Full - Crown not Frown (part 1) (2010-03-27)
(v. 6) Day 9 - Trials of Many Kinds (2011-12-12)
(v. 7) Life to the Full - Crown not Frown (part 1) (2010-03-27)
(v. 7) Day 9 - Trials of Many Kinds (2011-12-12)
(v. 7) Trusting God - Samuel (2010-11-29)
(v. 8) Trusting God - Samuel (2010-11-29)
(v. 8) Day 9 - Trials of Many Kinds (2011-12-12)
(v. 8) Life to the Full - Crown not Frown (part 1) (2010-03-27)
(v. 9) Life to the Full - Crown not Frown (part 2) (2010-03-28)
(v. 10) Life to the Full - Crown not Frown (part 2) (2010-03-28)
(v. 11) Life to the Full - Crown not Frown (part 2) (2010-03-28)
(v. 12) Day 9 - Trials of Many Kinds (2011-12-12)
(v. 12) Purpose Driven Life - Growth Through Temptation (2008-06-19)
(v. 12) Life to the Full - Crown not Frown (part 2) (2010-03-28)
(v. 13) Promises of God - Not tempted Beyond What You Can Bear (2009-03-14)
(v. 13) Day 9 - Trials of Many Kinds (2011-12-12)
(v. 13) Jesus - The Healer (part 2) (2010-06-17)
(v. 14) Promises of God - Not tempted Beyond What You Can Bear (2009-03-14)
(v. 14) Day 9 - Trials of Many Kinds (2011-12-12)
(v. 14) Jesus - The Healer (part 2) (2010-06-17)
(v. 14) Purpose Driven Life - Growth Through Temptation (2008-06-19)
(v. 15) Jesus - The Healer (part 2) (2010-06-17)
(v. 15) Day 9 - Trials of Many Kinds (2011-12-12)
(v. 15) Promises of God - Not tempted Beyond What You Can Bear (2009-03-14)
(v. 15) Purpose Driven Life - Growth Through Temptation (2008-06-19)
(v. 16) God does not change (part 1) (2010-06-23)
(v. 16) Purpose Driven Life - Growth Through Temptation (2008-06-19)
(v. 16) Life to the Full - Crown not Frown (part 3) (2010-03-29)
(v. 17) Life to the Full - Crown not Frown (part 3) (2010-03-29)
(v. 17) God Is (part I) (2011-03-20)
(v. 17) Man of Prayer - YHWH-jireh (2008-10-10)
(v. 17) Falling in Love with God - Intro (2008-03-31)
(v. 17) Power of Gratitude - Day-Tight Compartments (2008-03-07)
(v. 17) God does not change (part 1) (2010-06-23)
(v. 18) Life to the Full - Crown not Frown (part 3) (2010-03-29)
(v. 18) God does not change (part 1) (2010-06-23)
(v. 19) NT Commands (part III) (2011-03-10)
(v. 19) One Another - Reconciling with One Another (part 4) (2010-02-24)
(v. 19) Life to the Full - Crown not Frown (part 3) (2010-03-29)
(v. 20) One Another - Reconciling with One Another (part 4) (2010-02-24)
(v. 20) Life to the Full - Crown not Frown (part 3) (2010-03-29)
(v. 20) NT Commands (part III) (2011-03-10)
(v. 20) One Another - Reconciling with One Another (part 4) (2010-02-24)
(v. 21) Life to the Full - Crown not Frown (part 3) (2010-03-29)
(v. 22) NT Commands (part IV) (2011-03-11)
(v. 22) Followup - Balanced Attitude and Application (2011-01-18)
(v. 22) Followup - Bible Study Application (2011-01-11)
(v. 22) Kingdom First - Personal Responsibility (part 2) (2010-01-28)
(v. 22) First the Kingdom - Expectations (2010-02-12)
(v. 23) Kingdom First - Personal Responsibility (part 2) (2010-01-28)
(v. 23) Genesis 3 - The Fall of Man (2011-10-03)
(v. 23) Teach Us To Pray - Changes in Character (2008-09-15)
(v. 23) Power of Gratitude - Free at Last (2008-02-27)
(v. 23) First the Kingdom - Expectations (2010-02-12)
(v. 24) First the Kingdom - Expectations (2010-02-12)
(v. 24) Teach Us To Pray - Changes in Character (2008-09-15)
(v. 24) Kingdom First - Personal Responsibility (part 2) (2010-01-28)
(v. 24) Genesis 3 - The Fall of Man (2011-10-03)
(v. 24) Power of Gratitude - Free at Last (2008-02-27)
(v. 25) Power of Gratitude - Free at Last (2008-02-27)
(v. 25) First the Kingdom - Expectations (2010-02-12)
(v. 25) Life to the Full - Crown not Frown (part 4) (2010-03-30)
(v. 25) Teach Us To Pray - Changes in Character (2008-09-15)
(v. 25) Kingdom First - Personal Responsibility (part 2) (2010-01-28)
(v. 26) Life to the Full - Crown not Frown (part 4) (2010-03-30)
(v. 26) Kingdom First - Words are Big (2010-01-14)
(v. 27) Life to the Full - Crown not Frown (part 4) (2010-03-30)
(v. 27) Contagious Christian - Pull of Compassion (2010-10-10)
(v. 27) Christian Responsibilities (2010-10-24)
(v. 27) Followup - The New Testament Church (part II) (2011-01-25)
(v. 27) Life to the Full - Crown not Frown (part 5) (2010-03-31)
(v. 27) Day 13 - Saved to Serve (2011-12-16)

This passage is referenced in the following study note(s):
(v. 5) Devotional: Wisdom (2008-12-12)
(v. 6) Devotional: Prayer and Fasting (2008-12-12)
(v. 7) Devotional: Prayer and Fasting (2008-12-12)
(v. 8) Devotional: Prayer and Fasting (2008-12-12)
(v. 12) Devotional: Tenacity (2008-12-12)
(v. 22) Devotional: Bible Study (2008-12-12)
(v. 23) Devotional: Bible Study (2008-12-12)
(v. 24) Devotional: Bible Study (2008-12-12)
(v. 25) Devotional: Bible Study (2008-12-12)

Definition(s):
Jesus (Jeez-us): savior; deliverer
So (Soh):