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Testing Your Faith

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[fn]James, a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,

To the twelve [Hebrew] tribes [scattered abroad among the Gentiles] in the dispersion: Greetings (rejoice)!

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Consider it nothing but joy, my [fn]brothers and sisters, whenever you fall into various trials.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:3 - Be assured that the testing of your faith [through experience] produces endurance [leading to spiritual maturity, and inner peace].

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:4 - And let endurance have its perfect result and do a thorough work, so that you may be perfect and completely developed [in your faith], lacking in nothing.

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If any of you lacks wisdom [to guide him through a decision or circumstance], he is to ask of [our benevolent] God, who gives to everyone generously and without rebuke or blame, and it will be given to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:6 - But he must ask [for wisdom] in faith, without doubting [God’s willingness to help], for the one who doubts is like a billowing surge of the sea that is blown about and tossed by the wind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:7 - For such a person ought not to think or expect that he will receive anything [at all] from the Lord,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:8 - being a double-minded man, unstable and restless in all his ways [in everything he thinks, feels, or decides].

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Let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position [as a born-again believer, called to the true riches and to be an heir of God];

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:10 - and the rich man is to glory in being humbled [by trials revealing human frailty, knowing true riches are found in the grace of God], for like the flower of the grass he will pass away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:11 - For the sun rises with a scorching wind and withers the grass; its flower falls off and [fn]its beauty fades away; so too will the rich man, in the midst of his pursuits, fade away.

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Blessed [happy, spiritually prosperous, favored by God] is the man who is steadfast under trial and perseveres when tempted; for when he has passed the test and been approved, he will receive the [victor’s] crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:13 - Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God” [for temptation does not originate from God, but from our own flaws]; for God cannot be tempted by [what is] evil, and He Himself tempts no one.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:14 - But each one is tempted when he is dragged away, enticed and baited [to commit sin] by his own [worldly] desire (lust, passion).

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:15 - Then when the illicit desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin has run its course, it gives birth to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:16 - Do not be misled, my beloved brothers and sisters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:17 - Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above; it comes down from the Father of lights [the Creator and Sustainer of the heavens], in whom there is no variation [no rising or setting] or shadow [fn]cast by His turning [for He is perfect and never changes].

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:18 - It was of His own will that He gave us birth [as His children] by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits of His creatures [a prime example of what He created to be set apart to Himself—sanctified, made holy for His divine purposes].

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Understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters. Let everyone be quick to hear [be a careful, thoughtful listener], slow to speak [a speaker of carefully chosen words and], slow to anger [patient, reflective, forgiving];

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:20 - for the [resentful, deep-seated] anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God [that standard of behavior which He requires from us].

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:21 - So get rid of all uncleanness and [fn]all that remains of wickedness, and with a humble spirit receive the word [of God] which is implanted [actually rooted in your heart], which is able to save your souls.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:22 - But prove yourselves doers of the word [actively and continually obeying God’s precepts], and not merely listeners [who hear the word but fail to internalize its meaning], deluding yourselves [by unsound reasoning contrary to the truth].

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:23 - For if anyone only listens to the word [fn]without obeying it, he is like a man who looks very carefully at his natural face in a mirror;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:24 - for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he immediately forgets [fn]what he looked like.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:25 - But he who looks carefully into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and faithfully abides by it, not having become a [careless] listener who forgets but [fn]an active doer [who obeys], he will be blessed and favored by God in what he does [in his life of obedience].

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If anyone thinks himself to be religious [scrupulously observant of the rituals of his faith], and does not control his tongue but deludes his own heart, this person’s religion is worthless (futile, barren).

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:27 - Pure and unblemished religion [as it is expressed in outward acts] in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit and look after the fatherless and the widows in their distress, and to keep oneself uncontaminated by the [secular] world.
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AMP Footnotes
James, the leader of the Jerusalem church, was the half brother of Jesus. He became a believer after the resurrection of Jesus and was later martyred for his faith.
Lit brethren.
Lit the beauty of its face perishes.
Lit of turning.
Lit surplus of.
Lit and is not a doer.
Lit what sort he was.
Lit a doer of work.
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