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Of temptation. 23 Know ye, that our brother | rule over you, and all the saints Timothy is set at liberty; with They of Italy salute you.

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25 Grace be with you all. Amen. Written to the Hebrews from Italy, by Timothy.

T The general Epistle of JAMES.

CHAP. I.

Wisdom to be sought of God. AMES, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

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

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

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

5 If any of you lack wisdom, let aim ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

6 But let him ask in faith, noing, wavering. For he that waereth is like a wave of the sea riven with the wind and tossed. 7 For let not that man think that e shall receive any thing of the ord.

with whom is no variableness, nei ther shadow of turning.

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

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

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

23 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:

24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway 8 A double-minded man is un-forgetteth what manner of man he able in all his ways.

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

10 But the rich, in that he is made w: because as the flower of the -ass he shall pass away.

11 For the sun is no sooner risen ith a burning heat, but it witherh the grass, and the flower therefalleth, and the grace of the faion of it perisheth: so also shall e rich man fade away in his ways. 12 Blessed is the man that enreth temptation; for when he is ed, he shall receive the crown of e, which the Lord hath promised them that love him.

13 Let no man say when he is

was.

25 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.

26 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.

27 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. CHAP. II.

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2 For if there come unto your assembly, a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;

3 And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:

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12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

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4 Behold also the ships, vid though they be so great. driven of fierce winds, fet re 13 For he shall have judgment turned about with a very SOL without mercy that hath showed belm, whithersoever the goveral no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth, listeth. against judgment.

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14 What doth it profit, my bre-member, and boasteta grest top thren, though a man say he hath Behold, how great a matter a de faith, and have not works? can fire kindleth!

faith save him?

15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,

16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?

17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.

19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dend?

21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had of fered Isaac his son upon the al

far?

92 Seest thou how faith wrought th his works, and by works was made perfect?

6 And the tongue is a f world of iniquity so is the t among our members, that it the whole body, and settin the course of nature; and on fire of hell.

7 For every kind of beasts, t of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is to med, and had been tamed, of mankind:

8 But the tongue can no tame: it is an unruly evil, fal d deadly poison.

9 Therewith bless we God, e the Father; and therewith curse w men, which are made after the militude of God.

10 Out of the same mouth pr ceedeth blessing and cursing. brethren, these things ought not to be.

11 Doth a fountain send forth st the same place sweet water and bitter?

12 Can the fig-tree, my brethren. bear olive-berries? either a v figs? so can no fountain both yuck salt water and fresh.

13 Who is a wise man and e And the scripture was fulfil-Idued with knowledge among ros!

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Of patience in affliction

let him shew out of a good con- is able to save, and to destroy: versation his works with meekness who art thou that judgest another? of wisdom.

14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

17 But the wisdom that is 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 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

CHAP. IV.

Against Covetousness, &c.

F ROM whence come wars and

fightings among you? come hey not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

2 Ye lust and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obain; ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, now ye not that the friendship of he world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a riend of the world is the enemy of Cod.

5 Do ye think that the scripture mith in vain, The spirit that dwellth in us lusteth to envy?

6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth e proud, but giveth grace unto ne humble.

7 Submit yourselves therefore to od. Resist the devil, and he will ce from you.

8 Draw nigh to God, and he ill draw nigh, to you. Cleanse ur hands, ye sinners, and purify our hearts, ye double-minded.

9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and -cep: let your laughter be turned mourning, and your joy to eaviness.

13 Go to now, ye that say, Today or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy, and sell, and get gain:

14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

CHAP. V.

Of Wicked rich Men, &c.

GO to now, we rich men,, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.

3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth; and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth..

5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth,, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.

7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

8 Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the Judge standeth before the door.

10 Take, my brethren, the pro phets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of pa tience.

10 Humble yourselves in the ht of the Lord, and he shall lift ou up. 11 Speak not evil one of another, ethren. He that speaketh evil his brother, and judgeth his other, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou dge the law, thou art not a doer 11 Behold, we count them happy the law, but a judge. which endure. Ye have heard of 12 There is one lawgiver, who the patience of Job, and have seen

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the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender

mercy.

12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea, be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.

13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

14 Is any sick among you? let him 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 sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

of fervent prayer.

16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effec tual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him ;.

20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of

sins.

T The First Epistle general of PETER.

CHAP. I.

af God's manifold Spiritual

Grace.
Phrist; to the strangers scatter
DETER, an apostle of Jesus
ed throughout Pontus, Galatia,
Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which, according to his abundant mercy, hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last

time.

6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season (if need be) ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise, and honour, and glory, at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice ith joy unspeakable, and full of

ry:

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faith, even the salvation of your souls.

10 Of which salvation the prodiligently, who prophesied of the phets have inquired and searched grace that should come unto you:

11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified before-hand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.

12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you, with the Hols Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.

13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is be brought unto you at the revela tion of Jesus Christ:

14 As obedient children, not is shioning yourselves according the former lusts in your ignorance

15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all mas ner of conversation;

16 Because it is written, Be ♫ holy; for I am holy.

17 And if ye call on the Father. who without respect of person judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your s journing here in fear:

18 Forasmuch as ye know that ruptible things, as silver and gold ye were not redeemed with con

Christ the corner-stone. CHAP. II. Obedience to superiors from your vain conversation re-19 But ye are a chosen generaceived by tradition from your tion, a royal priesthood, a holy fathers; nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

20 Who verily was fore-ordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

21 Who by him do believe in God. that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

22 Seeing ye have purified your 12 Having your conversation souls in obeying the truth through honest among the Gentiles: that, che Spirit unto unfeigned love of whereas they speak against you as che brethren, see that ye love one evil-doers, they may by your good another with a pure heart fer- works, which they shall behold, wently: glorify God in the day of visitation.

23 Being born again, not of coruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth nd abideth for ever.

24 For all flesh is as grass, and ll the glory of man as the flower f grass. The grass withereth, and he flower thereof falleth away: 25 But the word of the Lord ndureth for ever. And this is the ord which by the gospel is preachunto you.

CHAP. II.

To avoid Uncharitableness.
THEREFORE, laying aside

13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake whether it be to the king, as supreme;

14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well.

15 For so is the will of God, that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish

men:

16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of malicious

Wall and alline, sindness, but as the servants of God.

pocrisies, and envies, and all il-speakings,

2 As new-born babes, desire the cere milk of the word, that ye my grow thereby:

3 If so be ye have tasted that the ord is gracious:

To whom coming as unto a ing stone, disallowed indeed of en, but chosen of God, and pre

us,

5 Ye also, as lively stones,, are ilt up a spiritual house, a holy esthood, to offer up spiritual crifices, acceptable to God by sus Christ.

17 Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

19 For this is thank-worthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

20 For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, yo take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

21 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:

5 Wherefore also it is contained the scripture, Behold, I lay in on a chief corner-stone, elect, cious: and he that believeth on n shall not be confounded. 22 Who did no sin, neither was Unto you therefore which beguile found in his mouth: ve, he is precious: but unto them 23 Who, when he was reviled, ich be disobedient, the stone reviled not again; when he suffered ich the builders disallowed, the he threatened not; but committed ne is made the head of the himself to him that judgeth righteously:

-ner,

And a stone of stumbling, and rock of offence, even to them ich stumble at the word, being obedient: whereunto also they re appointed.

24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whos stripes ye were healed.

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