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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.

But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?

But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?

And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;

And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:

Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.

And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.

For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?

Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:

Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.

This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;

One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.

Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre"s sake.

For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:

Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.

But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;

For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;

If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.