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the law. 12 So speak ye, and, and it was counted to him for so act ye, who are about to be righteousness:" and he was caljudged by the law of liberty. 13 led the Friend of God? 24 Do For he shall have judgment without mercy, who hath shown no mercy but mercy will exult over judgment, to those who have

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ye see that a man is justified from works, and not from faith only? 25 In like manner was not Rahab the harlot also justified from works, when she received the messengers, and sent them out another way? 26 For as the body without breath is dead, so faith without works is also dead.

CH. III. 1 My brethren, be not many teachers; knowing that we shall receive a greater condemnation. 2 For in many things we all offend: if any of fend not in word, he is a perfect man, and able to bridle also the whole body. 3 Behold, we put bits in the mouths of hor

14 WHAT doth it profit, my brethren, if any one say that he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? 15 [Now] if a brother or sister be naked, or destitute of daily food; 16 and one of you should say to them; "Depart in peace, be ye warmed, and be ye filled;" but ye give them not those things which are necessary for the body; what doth it profit? 17 Thus faith also, if it have not works, is of itself dead. 18 Yea, any one may say, "Thouses, that they may obey us: and hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith without [thy] works, and I will show thee [my] faith by my works."

19 Thou believest that God is one: thou dost well: the demons* also believe, and tremble. 20 But art thou willing to know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? 21 Was not our father Abraham justified from works, when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? 22 Dost thou see that faith wrought jointly with his works? and that faith was made perfect from works? 23 and that the scripture was fulfilled which saith, "Abraham believed God,

we turn about their whole body.

4 Behold ships also, which are so great, and are driven by fierce winds, yet are turned about by a very small helm, whithersoever the pilot chooseth. 5 Thus the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a pile doth a little fire kindle! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: [80] is the tongue among our members, it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheels of nature; and is itself set on fire from gehenna.

7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of creeping

* human ghosts :-" Mr. Farmer supposes an allusion to Job. xxvi. 5, which he renders," the giants, or the ghosts of the dead, tremble under the waters together with their host." He adds, that St. James doth not appear to be delivering any new doctrine concerning demons, but rather to be arguing with the persons to whom he writes it, on their own principles. Farmer on demoniacs, p. 211-216. 1st edition." Im. Ver. note.

things, and of things in the sea, | your members? 2 Ye desire,

and have not: ye kill, and earnestly covet, and cannot obtain : ye fight and contend; yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3

cause ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it on your pleasures. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteres

are subdued, and hath been subdued, by mankind. 8 But the tongue no one can subdue: it is an evil not to be restrained, full of deadly poison. 9 There-Ye ask, and receive not; bewith we bless our God and Father; and therewith we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God. 10 Out of theses, know ye not that the friendsame mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. 11 Doth a spring send forth out of the same place sweet and bitter water? 12 Can a fig-tree, my brethren, bear olives? or a vine, figs? [So] neither can that spring which is salt yield sweet

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13 Who is wise and knowing among you? Let him show by his works a good behaviour, in meekness of wisdom. 14 But if ye have bitter envy and strife in your hearts, boast not yourselves, and speak not falsély concerning the truth. 15 This wisdom cometh not down from above; but is earthly, sensual, inspired by demons. 16 For where envy and strife are, there is disturbance, and every evil work. 17 But the wisdom which is from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and of good fruits, without partiality, [and] without hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

CH. IV. 1 WHENCE come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, from your desires of pleasure which war in

ship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend to the world, is an enemy of God.

5 Do ye think that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which dwelleth in us stir up to envy? 6 Nay, it bestoweth more abundant favour. Wherefore it is said, "God resisteth the proud, but be. stoweth favour on the humble." 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God: resist the impostor, and he will flee from you: 8 draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts ye men of divided minds: 9 be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness: 10 humble yourselves in the sight of [the] Lord, and he will exalt you.

11 Brethren, speak not evil one of another. He who speaketh evil of his brother, and condemneth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and condemneth the law but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge of it. 12 There is one law-giver and judge, who is able to save and to des

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troy. Who art thou that judg est another?

13 COME now, ye who say, "To-day or to-morrow let us go into such a city, and continue there a year, and traffic, and acquire gain :" 14 ye who know not what will be on the morrow. (For what is your life? It is even a vapour, which appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.) 15 Whereas ye ought to say, "If the Lord will, and we live, then let us do this, or that." 16 But now ye glory in your boasting words: all such glorying is evil. 17 To him therefore it is sin, who knoweth how to do what is right, and doth it not.

CH. V. 1 COME now, ye rich men, weep and lament for your miseries which are coming upon you. 2 Your store is corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver is rusted; and the rust of them will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire: ye have heaped up treasure in the last days.

4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped your fields, which is unjustly kept back by you, crieth against you: and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

5 Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and have rioted in pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts, as it were in the day of slaughter. 6 Ye have condemned, ye have killed the Righteous One, who did not resist you.

7 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the appearance of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and is patient for it, until it receive the early and the latter rain. 8 Be ye also patient; establish your hearts; for the appearance of the Lord draweth near. 9 Murmur not against each other, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.

10 My brethren, take the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience. 11 Behold, we pronounce those happy who endure patiently. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; for [the Lord] is of tender mercy, and full of compassion.

12 BUT above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath but let your yes be yes; and your no, no; lest ye fall under condem

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16 Confess your offences to one another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. The fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. 17 Elijah was a man of like infirmities with us; and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained not on the land for three years and six months: 18

and he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth its produce.

19 Brethren, if any among you err from the truth, and one turn him back to it; 20 let him know, that he who turneth a sinner back from the error of his way, saveth a soul from death, and covereth his multitude of sins.*

THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PETER.

CHAP. I.

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1 PETER, an apostle of Jesus joice, though now, for a short Christ, to the sojourners scat-time, (if need be), ye be grieved tered throughout Pontus, Gala- by various trials; 7 that the tia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bi-proof of your faith, which is thynia: 2 chosen to obedience, much more precious than that and a sprinkling of the blood of of gold, which, though proved Jesus Christ, according to the by fire, perisheth, may be found foreknowledge of God the Fa- to praise, and honour, and glother, in sanctification of spirit: ry, in the revelation of Jesus may favour and peace be mul- Christ; 8 whom, not having seen, tiplied to you. ye love; on whom, not now looking, but believing, ye greatly rejoice, with joy unspeakable, and full of glory; 9 receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your

3 BLESSED be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to his great mercy, hath begotten us again to a lively hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead; 4 even to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you, 5 who are kept by the power of God, through faith, to salvation, ready to be revealed in the last

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10 Of which salvation the prophets, who prophesied concerning this favour of God to you, inquired and searched diligently; 11 searching what time, or what kind of time, the spirit of Christ in them signified, when

*This excellent epistle is one of those the genuineness of which was disputed in the pri mitive church. But it is not unworthy of the apostle to whom it is generally ascribed. † i. e. yourselves. A part here is taken for the whole. See Rom. xii. 1; xiii. 1.

i. e. the spirit which prophesied concerning Christ.

times for your sake, 21 who, through him, believe in God who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that

it witnessed beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glories which were to follow: 12 to whom it was revealed, that they ministered not to them- | your faith and hope are in God. selves, but to you, the things which have now been told you, by those who have preached the gospel to you [through] the holy spirit sent down from heaven; which things even angels desire to look into.*

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22 Having therefore purified your lives by obeying the truth [through the spirit] to unfeigned brotherly kindness, see that ye love one another, with a pure heart, fervently; 23 having been born again, not from corruptible seed but from incorruptible, through that word of God which liveth and remaineth.

24 For "all flesh is as the herb, and all its glory as the flower of the herb: the herb withereth, and [its] flower falleth off: 25 but the word of the Lord remaineth to the age:" and this is the word which is preached to you by the gospel.

CH. II. 1 Wherefore lay aside all maliciousness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil-speakings, 2 and, as new-born babes, earnestly desire the sincere spiritual milk, that ye may grow thereby to salvation : 3 since ye have tasted that the Lord is kind. 4 In coming to whom, as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen and honourable with God, 5 ye also, as living stones, being built up, are a spiritual temple, and an holy priesthood to offer up spritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

* Perhaps the meaning of the apostle may be, that the messengers who are now employed to promulgate this glorious doctrine, cannot fully comprehend its import, and are desirous of improving their aquaintance with it. See Eph. iii. 18, 19,

ti. e. delivered from your former state of heathenism, prejudice, and vice, by the gospel; which was ratified by the blood of Christ.

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