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And it shall be given him.", "citation": "James 1:5 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 6, "text": "But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, which is moved and carried about by the wind.", "citation": "James 1:6 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 7, "text": "Therefore let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.", "citation": "James 1:7 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 8, "text": "A double minded man is inconstant in all his ways.", "citation": "James 1:8 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 9, "text": "But let the brother of low condition glory in his exaltation:", "citation": "James 1:9 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 10, "text": "And the rich, in his being low: because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away.", "citation": "James 1:10 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 11, "text": "For the sun rose with a burning heat and parched the grass: and the flower thereof fell off, and the beauty of the shape thereof perished. So also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.", "citation": "James 1:11 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 12, "text": "Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for, when he hath been proved, he shall receive the crown of life which God hath promised to them that love him.", "citation": "James 1:12 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 13, "text": "Let no man, when he is tempted, say that he is tempted by God. For God is not a tempter of evils: and he tempteth no man.", "citation": "James 1:13 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 14, "text": "But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn away and allured.", "citation": "James 1:14 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 15, "text": "Then, when concupiscence hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin. But sin, when it is completed, begetteth death.", "citation": "James 1:15 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 16, "text": "Do not err, therefore, my dearest brethren.", "citation": "James 1:16 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 17, "text": "Every best gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change nor shadow of alteration.", "citation": "James 1:17 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 18, "text": "For of his own will hath he begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be some beginning of his creature.", "citation": "James 1:18 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 19, "text": "You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak and slow to anger.", "citation": "James 1:19 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 20, "text": "For the anger of man worketh not the justice of God.", "citation": "James 1:20 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 21, "text": "Wherefore, casting away all uncleanness and abundance of naughtiness, with meekness receive the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.", "citation": "James 1:21 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 22, "text": "But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.", "citation": "James 1:22 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 23, "text": "For if a man be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he shall be compared to a man beholding his own countenance in a glass.", "citation": "James 1:23 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 24, "text": "For he beheld himself and went his way and presently forgot what manner of man he was.", "citation": "James 1:24 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 25, "text": "But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty and hath continued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work: this man shall be blessed in his deed.", "citation": "James 1:25 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 26, "text": "And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his own heart, this man's religion is vain.", "citation": "James 1:26 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 27, "text": "Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation and to keep one's self unspotted from this world.", "citation": "James 1:27 (Douay-Rheims)" } ] }