fect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. 5 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. eth 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. 6 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: 7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing ofthe Lord. 8 A double-minded man is un-face in a glass: stable in all his ways. 9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted; 10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. 11 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. 12 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. 13 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: 14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. 15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin; and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. 16 Do not err,my beloved brethren. 17 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. 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 brethrer, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 20 For the wrath of man work 23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural 24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he 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 religous, 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. M of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Y brethren, have not the faith 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; 4 Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts? 5 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? 6 But ye have despised the poor Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment-seats? 7 Donot they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called? 8 Ifye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: 9 But if ye have respect to persons ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. 10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. 11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now, if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. 12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty. 15 For he shall have judgment without mercy that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment. 14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can 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. 23 And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God. 24 Yesee then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. 25 Likewise also, was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way? 26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. CHAP. III. The tongue must be bridled, &c., M Y brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. 2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. 3 Behold, we put bits in the horses* mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body, 4 Behold also the ships, which, thougn they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whi thersoever the governor listeth. 5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth!" 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity; so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. 7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: 8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. 20 But wilt thou know, O vain man! that faith without works is dead? 21. Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had of fered Isaac his son upon the altar?the 22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was ith made perfect? even 9 Therewith bless we God, Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. 10 Out of the same mouth pro ceedeth blessing and cursing. My | wherefore he saith, God resisteth brethren, these things ought not so the proud, but giveth grace unto to be. the humble. 11 Dothafountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? 12 Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh. 7 Submit yourselves, therefore, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and 13 Who is a wise man, and en-hearts, ye double-minded. dued with knowledge, among you? Jet him shew, out of a good conver-weep: let your laughter be turned to sation, his works with meekness 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 fron 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. Of striving against covetousness. TROM whence come wars and Fightings among you? come they Hot hence, even of your lusts that sar in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: 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, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever, therefore, will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. 11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law; but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? 13 Go to now, ye that say, To-day, 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 patience in affliction, &c. and howl for your miseries O to now, ye rich men, weep that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver is canker 5. Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwell-ed; and the rust of them shall be a eth in us lusteth to envy? 6 But he giveth niore grace: witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the 12 But, above all things, my bre-, last days. thren, swear not; neither by heaven, 4 Behold, the hire of the labour-neither by the earth, neither by any ers which have reaped down your other oath: but let your yea be yea; fields, which is of you kept back by and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into fraud, crieth; and the cries of them condemnation. 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. 13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry ? det 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 6 Ye have condemned and kill-him with oil in the name of the Lord: ed the just; and he doth not resist you. 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick,and the Lord shall raise 7 Be patient, therefore, brethren, him up; and if he have committed unto the coming of the Lord, Be-sins, they shall be forgiven him. hold, 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; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. 16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. 17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed 9 Grudge not one against ano-earnestly that it might not rain; and ther, brethren, lest ye be condemn-it rained not on the earth by the ed: behold, the Judge standeth be-space of three years and six months. fore the door. 18 And he prayed again, and the 10 Take, my brethren, the pro-heaven gave rain, and the earth phets, who have spoken in the name brought forth her fruit. of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience. 11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. 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. 1 The First Epistle general of PETER. CHAP. I. РЕТЕН an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered 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: judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: 18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; 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. 8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable, and full of glory; 9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. 10 Of which salvation the pro-souls in obeying the truth through phets have inquired, and searched diligently, who prophesied of the 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 beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. 22 Seeing ye have purified your the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: 23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. 24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away; 25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preach CHAP. II. 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 Holy Ghosted unto you. sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into. Christ the chief corner-stone, &c. 13 Wherefore gird up the loinsHEREFORE, laying aside all of your mind, be sober, and hope malice, and all guile, and to the end for the grace that is to hypocrisies, and envies, and all evilbe brought unto you at the revela-speakings, tion of Jesus Christ: 14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: 15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. 2 As new-born babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby; 3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious: 4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, 5 Ye also,as lively stones,are built 17 And if ye call on the Father, up a spiritual house, a holy priestwho without respect of persons! hood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, |