J 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 him 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, 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 of the Lord.
8 A double minded man is unstable 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 firstfruits 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 engrafted 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 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 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.
1 Yakob, Onyankopɔn ne Awurade Yesu Kristo akoa, de kɔma mmusua kuw dumien a wɔabɔ ahwete wɔ amanaman no mu no, nkyea. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
2 Me nuanom, sɛ sɔhwɛ ahodoɔ to mo a, mommbu no sɛ anigyeɛ a ɛyɛ kɛseɛ; Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
3 A munim eyi sɛ, mo gyidie sɔ hwɛ de boasetɔ ba. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
4 Na momma boasetɔ nya n'adwuma a ɛyɛ pɛpɛɛpɛ, sɛnea mobɛyɛ pɛpɛɛpɛ na moayɛ mu, a hwee nhia mo. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
5 Sɛ mo mu bi hia nyansa a, ɔnsrɛ Onyankopɔn, ɔno a ɔde ma nnipa nyinaa kɛseɛ, na ɔnka w'anim; na wɔbɛma no. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
6 Na ɔnsrɛ wɔ gyidie mu, a biribiara nhinhim. Efisɛ deɛ ɔhinhim no te sɛ ɛpo mu asorɔkye a mframa bɔ no na ɛhim no. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
7 Efisɛ mma saa onipa no nsusu sɛ ɔbɛnya biribi afiri Awurade nkyɛn. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
8 Onipa adwene-mmienu, ne ho nyɛ den wɔ n'akwan nyinaa mu. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
9 Ma onua a ɔba fam no, n'ani nnye sɛ wɔama no so: Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
10 Na ɔdefoɔ deɛ, sɛ wɔabrɛ no ase: efisɛ ɔbɛsene sɛnea ɛserɛ nhwiren teɛ. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
11 Efisɛ owia pue ba, na ne hyeɛ hyɛ, na ɛserɛ no wu, na ne nhwiren no ase, na ne suban adom sɛe: saa ara na ɔdefoɔ nso bɛsɛe wɔ n'akwan mu. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
12 Nhyira nka onipa a ɔgyina sɔhwɛ mu: efisɛ sɛ wɔsɔ no hwɛ na ɔgyina a, ɔbɛgye nkwa ahenkyɛw, deɛ Awurade ahyɛ bɔ ama wɔn a wɔdɔ no no. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
13 Obiara mma sɔhwɛ to no a, ɔnnka sɛ, Onyankopɔn na ɔresɔ me hwɛ: efisɛ bɔne ntumi nsɔ Onyankopɔn nhwɛ, na ɔno nso nsɔ obiara nhwɛ: Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
14 Na wɔsɔ obiara hwɛ, bere a n'ankasa n'akɔnnɔ twe no kɔ, na ɛdaadaa no. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
15 Ɛnneɛ sɛ akɔnnɔ nyinsɛn a, ɛwo bɔne: na bɔne, sɛ ɛwie a, ɛwo owuo. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
16 Mo nuanom adɔfoɔ, monnyera. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
17 Akyɛdeɛ pa biara ne akyɛdeɛ pɛpɛɛpɛ biara firi soro, na efiri hann Agya hɔ ba, ɔno a nsesae nni ne ho, na mmom-mmom nsesayɛ susuma nso nni hɔ. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
18 N'ankasa n'apɛdeɛ enti na ɔde nokorɛ asɛm wowoo yɛn, sɛnea yɛbɛyɛ n'abɔdeɛ mu bi a wɔdi kan. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
19 Enti, me nuanom adɔfoɔ, ma obiara ntie asɛm ntɛm, na ɔnyɛ nyaa sɛ ɔbɛkasa, na ɔnyɛ nyaa sɛ ne bo bɛfu: Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
20 Efisɛ onipa abufuo nyɛ Onyankopɔn tenenee adwuma. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
21 Eyi enti monyi efi nyinaa ne bɔne a ɛbu so no ntow ngu, na momfa ahobrɛase nnye asɛm a wɔahyɛ mu no atom, deɛ ɛtumi gye mo akra nkwa. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
22 Na monyɛ asɛm no yɛfoɔ, na monnyɛ atiefoɔ nko, na monnaadaa mo ankasa mo ho. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
23 Efisɛ sɛ obi yɛ asɛm no tiefoɔ, na ɔnyɛ ɔyɛfoɔ a, ɔte sɛ onipa a ɔhwɛ n'anim a wɔwoo no no wɔ ahwehwɛ mu: Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
24 Efisɛ ɔhwɛ ne ho, na ɔkɔ ne baabi, na ntɛm ara ne werɛ firi sɛnea ne ho na ɛteɛ. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
25 Na obiara a ɔhwɛ ahofadie mmara pɛpɛɛpɛ no mu, na ɔkɔ so wɔ mu, a ɔnyɛ werɛfirifoɔ tiefoɔ, na mmom adwuma yɛfoɔ no, nhyira bɛba saa onipa yi so wɔ ne nneyɛeɛ mu. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
26 Sɛ obi a ɔka mo ho ayɛ sɛ onyamesomni, na ɔnkyere ne tɛkrɛma, na ɔdaadaa ne koma a, saa onipa yi nyamesom yɛ ɔkwa. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
27 Nyamesom a ɛho teɛ na efi nka ho wɔ Onyankopɔn ne Agya no anim ne eyi, Sɛ wɔbɛsra nyanka ne opremfoɔ baanom wɔ wɔn amanehunu mu, na ɔbɛkora ne ho yie sɛ wiase mma wɔ no nkeka. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn