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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 1
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God -- Resist temptation -- Be
ye doers of the word -- How to recognize pure religion.
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1 JAMES, a
aservant of God and of the
Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are
bscattered abroad, greeting.
2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into
adivers btemptations;
3 Knowing this, that the
atrying of your faith worketh bpatience.
4 But let patience have her perfect work, that
ye may be aperfect and entire, wanting nothing.
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5 aIf any of you lack
bwisdom, let him ask of
Goda, that
cgiveth
to all men liberally, and dupbraideth not; and it
shall be given him.
6 But let him aask in
bfaith, 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 adouble minded man is
unstable in all his ways.
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5a If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask
of God Joseph Smith took this and applied it to himself personally.
Yet in fact it is of general application to all men and it done in accord to
James' directions, it stands as a sourch of personal revelation to each
person from God. We all have that promise of a personal link and relationship
to God and each may recieve from God according to our various needs, even to
the receipt of personal revelation as it applies and is need by each and
every one of us. And this is very applicable in considering such as Moroni's
challenge to find out for one's self the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon
in Moroni chapter 10.
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9 Let the brother of alow degree
rejoice in that he is exalted:
10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as
the flower of the agrass 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
agrace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the
brich man fade away in his ways.
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12 aBlessed is the man that
bendureth temptation: for when he is
ctried, he shall receive the dcrown 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 atempted with
bevil, neither tempteth he any man:
14 But every man is atempted, when
he is drawn away of his own blust, and enticed.
15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth
asin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth
death.
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16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
17 Every agood
bgift and every perfect cgift is from
above, and dcometh down from the Father of
elights, with whom is no fvariableness,
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.
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19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be
swift to hear, slow to aspeak, bslow to
cwrath:
20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
21 Wherefore lay apart all
afilthiness and bsuperfluity of
naughtiness, and receive with cmeekness the
dengrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
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22 But be ye adoers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
23 For if any be a ahearer of the
word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a
bglass:
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
alaw of bliberty, and continueth
therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this
man shall be blessed in his deed.
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26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and
bridleth not his atongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this
man's religion is bvain.
27 Pure areligion and undefiled
before God and the Father is this, To bvisit the
cfatherless and dwidows in their
eaffliction, and to keep himself
funspotted from gthe
hworld.
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