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| '''Comments''' 
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|  The word servant in the first verse is ''doulos'' <Ref>{{1401}} </Ref> many a bondservant, from the word  ''deo''<Ref>{{1210}} </Ref>  meaning to "to bind tie, fasten".
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|  James is very clear that our faith is tempted and tried and we must endure. We only fail when our self love and personal lust exceeds our love of God.  We are blessed if we ''endureth temptation''.
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| James states that the ''engrafted''<Ref> 1721 ~ἔμφυτος~ emphutos \@em’-foo-tos\@
 from 1722 and a derivative of 5453; ; adj AV-engrafted 1; 1 1) inborn, implanted by nature, implanted by others instruction</Ref> revelation of God comes from above he says we must also be [[doer]]s.
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| '''Questions'''
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| What is the [[Perfect law of liberty]]?
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| What does it mean to "look"<Ref>{{3879}} </Ref> into that law?
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| What creature<Ref>{{2938}} </Ref> is he talking about and who were the [[Levites|first fruits]]?
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| What is [[Religion]]?<Ref name="religious">{{religious}}</Ref>
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| What is [[Pure Religion]]?
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== James 1 ==
 
=== Salutation ===

[1] James, a servant of God and of the Lord [[Jesus]] [[Christ]], to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
 
== Faith and Wisdom ==


[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.
* Poverty and Riches (1:9-11)

[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.
 
=== Trial and Temptation ===


[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 [[Divers lusts|lust]], and enticed.

[15] Then when [[Divers lusts|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 [[firstfruit]]s of his creatures.<Ref>2938 ~κτίσμα~ ktisma \@ktis’-mah\@ from 2936;n n AV-creature 4; 4 1) thing founded 2) created thing</Ref>
 
=== Hearing and Doing the Word ===


[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<Ref>{{2549}}</Ref>, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

[22] But be ye [[doer]]s of the word, and not hearers only, [[Strong delusion|deceiving your own selves]].

[23] For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a [[doer]]<Ref name="doworks">{{doworks}}</Ref><Ref name="Lovegn">{{Lovegn}}</Ref>, 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]]<Ref name="Perfectq">{{Perfectq}}</Ref>, 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,<Ref name="religious">{{religious}}</Ref> and bridleth not his tongue, but [[Strong delusion|deceiveth his own heart]], this man's [[religion]]<Ref name="religious">{{religious}}</Ref> is vain.

[27] [[Pure Religion|Pure religion]]<Ref name="religious">{{religious}}</Ref> and undefiled before God and the [[Father]] is this, To visit the [[father]]less and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted<Ref>{{784}}</Ref> from the [[world]].

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