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James 1

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

2My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

3Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

4But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

5If 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.

6But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

7For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

8A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

9Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:

10But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

11For 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.

12Blessed 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.

13Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

14But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

15Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

16Do not err, my beloved brethren.

17Every 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.

18Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

20For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

21Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

22But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

23For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

24For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

25But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

26If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.

27Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Preached on James 1 43

  1. The Christian's Jacob's Ladder
  2. Sermon on a Martyr’s Day
  3. Of Prayer and the Lord’s Prayer, Sermon II: Preparation to Prayer
  4. ‘Be ye doers of the word’ (Greenwich, 1607)
  5. Of the Sending of the Holy Ghost, Sermon XIV (Whitsunday 1621)
    Lancelot Andrewes · James 1:16–17 · 20 May 1621 · No. 14
  6. Thirteen Sermons on Various Subjects: Sermon 3
    John Howe · James 1:2 · No. 3
  7. Thirteen Sermons on Various Subjects: Sermon 6
    John Howe · James 1:22 · No. 6
  8. The Sins of Men not Chargeable upon God, but upon Themselves
  9. The Sins of Men not Chargeable upon God, but upon Themselves
  10. The Unchangeableness of God
  11. Sermon 19 (James 1:14)
  12. On God’s Earnest Wish to Save the Souls of all Men
  13. Upon the Government of the Tongue
  14. An Address to the Regenerate, Founded on the Preceding Discourses
  15. On Patience
    John Wesley · James 1:4 · No. 83
  16. Society
  17. The Duty of Patience
  18. The Way to Obtain True Wisdom
  19. The Double-Minded Man Exposed
  20. The Testimony of God Respecting His Tempted People
  21. Sin the Offspring of Our Own Hearts
  22. God the Only Source of All Good
  23. Regeneration Its Author, Means, and End
  24. The Reward of Obeying the Gospel
  25. Self-Deceit Exposed
  26. Pure and Undefiled Religion Described
  27. Self Deceivers
  28. Governing the Tongue
    Charles Grandison Finney · James 1:26 · 29 January 1845
  29. The Blessedness of Enduring Temptation
    Charles Grandison Finney · James 1:12 · 30 September 1846
  30. The Danger of Mistaking Knowledge for Obedibience
  31. The Days of the Week
  32. Two Sorts Of Hearers
  33. Loving Advice for Anxious Seekers
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · James 1:5 · 17 February 1866 · No. 735
  34. All Joy in All Trials
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · James 1:2–4 · 4 February 1883 · No. 1704
  35. Before Sermon, At Sermon and After Sermon
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · James 1:21–22 · 28 June 1885 · No. 1847
  36. The Looking Glass
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · James 1:23–25 · 5 July 1885 · No. 1848
  37. A Discourse Upon True Blessedness Here and Hereafter
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · James 1:12 · 13 December 1885 · No. 1874
  38. Charity and Purity
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · James 1:27 · 18 June 1893 · No. 2313
  39. A Warning to Waverers
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · James 1:6–7 · 3 October 1897 · No. 2537
  40. 'A Kind of First Fruits'
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · James 1:18 · 9 November 1911 · No. 3275
  41. The Eternal Source of Goodness
    Henry Wace · James 1:17 · 7 November 1915 · No. 14
  42. Pure religion
    A. C. Dixon · James 1:27 · No. 18
  43. The Message of the Proverbs

Also citing James 1 393

  1. A Divine Herball or Garden of Graces
  2. A Visitation Sermon
  3. A Divine Herball, or the prayse of Fertillitie
  4. The Breaking vp of the Deuils Banket. the third Sermon
  5. On Prayer
  6. Oration on the Palms
  7. Festal Letter for 341
  8. The Father
  9. On the words, Crucified and Buried
  10. On the Mysteries. V:  On the Sacred Liturgy and Communion
  11. Homily 7 on Romans
  12. Homily 11 on Ephesians
  13. Homily 16 on Romans
  14. On Patience
  15. On Continence
  16. Again, on Matt. vi. on the Lord’s Prayer. To the Competentes
  17. Again on the Lord’s Prayer, Matt. vi. To the Competentes
  18. On the words of the Gospel, Matt. xii. 32, ‘Whosoever shall speak a word against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in that which is to come.’ Or, ‘on the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost.’
  19. Tractate 43 on John
  20. Exposition on Psalm 54
  21. Tractate 57 on John
  22. On the words of the Gospel, John v. 2, ‘Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool,’ etc.
  23. Exposition on Psalm 78
  24. Exposition on Psalm 119
  25. Exposition on Psalm 140
  26. On Lent, XI
    Leo the Great · No. 49
  27. Die Epistell am vierden Sontag ym Advent, [Phil. 4, 4 –7] Philippenn. 4
  28. The Christian Race for the Prize
  29. Am dritten sontag des Advents Euangelium [Matth. 11, 2 –10] Matt. II
  30. Our Christian Duties
  31. Exhortation to the Fruits of Faith
  32. Ein ander Sermon, auff den Fünften Sontag nach Ostern Von dem gebet
  33. The Cross of Christ
  34. Of adoreing (or worshipping,) Of inuocating (or calling vppon) and of seruing the onely, liuing, true, and euerlasting God. Also of true and false religion The fift Sermon.
  35. Of the fourme and manner howe to pray to GOD, that is, Of the calling on the name of the Lorde, where also the Lordes prayer is expounded, and also singing, thanksgiuing, and… The fift Sermon.
  36. Sermon 3 on the Ten Commandments
  37. Sermon 7 on Ephesians
  38. Sermon 12 on the Ten Commandments
  39. Sermon 18 on Ephesians
  40. Sermon 24 on Ephesians
  41. Sermon 26 on Ephesians
  42. Sermon 35 on Ephesians
  43. Sermon 41 on Deuteronomy
  44. Sermon 45 on Ephesians
  45. Sermon 7 on Deuteronomy
    John Calvin · Deuteronomy 1 · 17 April 1555 · No. 7
  46. Sermon 32 on Deuteronomy
    John Calvin · Deuteronomy 5 · 17 June 1555 · No. 32
  47. Sermon 65 on Deuteronomy
    John Calvin · Deuteronomy 9 · 30 August 1555 · No. 65
  48. Sermon 68 on Deuteronomy
    John Calvin · Deuteronomy 9 · 9 September 1555 · No. 68
  49. Sermon 77 on Deuteronomy
    John Calvin · Deuteronomy 11 · 25 September 1555 · No. 77
  50. Sermon 101 on Deuteronomy
    John Calvin · Deuteronomy 16 · 9 November 1555 · No. 101
  51. Sermon 125 on Deuteronomy
    John Calvin · Deuteronomy 22 · 2 January 1556 · No. 125
  52. Sermon 153 on Deuteronomy
    John Calvin · Deuteronomy 28 · 10 March 1556 · No. 153
  53. Sermon 174 on Deuteronomy
    John Calvin · Deuteronomy 31 · 24 April 1556 · No. 174
  54. Sermon 175 on Deuteronomy
    John Calvin · Deuteronomy 31 · 4 May 1556 · No. 175
  55. Sermon 179 on Deuteronomy
    John Calvin · Deuteronomy 32 · 8 May 1556 · No. 179
  56. Sermon 198 on Deuteronomy
    John Calvin · Deuteronomy 33 · 13 July 1556 · No. 198
  57. THE SECOND Sermon
  58. A Sermon Preached before the King's Maiestie, at Vvhite-Hall, on the XXXI. of May A. D. MDCXII, being Whit-Svnday
  59. A Sermon Preached before the King's Maiestie at Greenwich on the XXIV. of May, A. D. MDCXVIII. being Whit-Svnday
  60. A Sermon Prepared to be Preached on Vvhit-Svnday, A. D. MDCXXII
  61. A Sermon Preached before the King's Maiestie, at White-Hall, on the V. of November. A. D. MDCXIII
  62. The Sinfvll Mans Search
    Henry Smith · Job 8:5 · No. 2
  63. Maries Choice
    Henry Smith · John 11 · No. 3
  64. The Affinitie of the Faithfvl
  65. A Disswasion from Pride, and An exhortation to Humilitie
  66. Preached at Lincolns Inne (no. 15)
  67. A Sermon of Valediction at my going into Germany, at Loncolns-Inne, April. 18. 1619. Sermon XIX
  68. Preached at Denmark house, some few days before the body of King Iames, was removed from thence, to his buriall, Apr. 26. 1625 Preached at Denmark house, some few days before the body of King Iames, was removed from thence, to his buriall, Apr. 26. 1625.
    John Donne · No. 33
  69. Preached upon Trinity-Sunday (Psal. 51.1)
    John Donne · Psalms 51:1 · No. 39
  70. Preached at St. Pauls Crosse, Novemb. 22. 1629
  71. A Sermon Preached in Saint Dunstans
  72. the fourth of my Prebend Sermons upon my five Psalmes: Preached at S. Pauls, 28. Ianuary, 1626
  73. Preached at Saint Pauls Crosse. 6 May. 1627
    John Donne · Hosea 3:4 · 6 May 1627 · No. 41
  74. Aggravation of Sinne
  75. The Trial and Triumph of Faith: Sermon 12
  76. The Trial and Triumph of Faith: Sermon 20
  77. The Saints Jewel
    Thomas Shepard · Acts 2:39 · 2 April 1655
  78. A Call to the Unconverted: Sermon 4
  79. A vision of unchangeable, free mercy, in sending the means of grace to undeserving sinners
    John Owen · Acts 16:9 · No. 1
  80. The strength of faith
  81. The steadfastness of the promises, and the sinfulness of staggering
  82. Of walking humbly with God
    John Owen · Micah 6:8 · No. 8
  83. The testimony of the church is not the only nor the chief reason of our believing the scripture to be the word of God
    John Owen · Luke 16:29 · No. 14
  84. A Christian, God’s temple
  85. The Art of Divine Contentment: An Exposition of Philippians 4:11
  86. Meat Out of the Eater
  87. The Preference of Duties: Morals Before Rituals
  88. Christ’s Temptation and Transfiguration: Sermon 1
  89. The Preface to the Lord's Prayer
  90. The Lord's Prayer: Our Father which art in heaven
  91. Sermons upon 2 Thessalonians I: Sermon 1
  92. Introduction
  93. The Scriptures
  94. Eighteen Sermons on 2 Thessalonians 2: Sermon 2
  95. Sermon upon Mark vii. 37
  96. A Description of the True Circumcision
  97. Love
  98. Sermons upon 1 John III: Sermon 2
  99. Sermons upon 2 Thessalonians I: Sermon 2
  100. What Kind of Perfection is Attainable in This Life?
  101. Christ's Eternal Existence and the Dignity of His Person (Colossians 1): Sermon 3
  102. Sermons upon 1 John ii. 12-14: Sermon 4
  103. The Third Petition in the Lord’s Prayer
  104. Sermons upon 1 John III: Sermon 4
  105. Psalm 119: Sermon 4
  106. Not to Be Offended in Christ, the Ready Way to Blessedness
  107. The Fourth Petition in the Lord's Prayer
  108. Twenty Sermons: Sermon 5 ()
  109. Sermons upon 1 John ii. 12-14: Sermon 5
  110. The Transfiguration of Christ: Sermon 6
  111. Christ’s Temptation and Transfiguration: Sermon 6
  112. The Lord's Prayer: And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors
  113. Wisdom is Justified of Her Children
  114. The Unchangeableness Of God
  115. Sermons upon 1 John III: Sermon 6
  116. Sermons upon Philippians iii. 7-21: Sermon 6
  117. Twenty Sermons: Sermon 6 ()
  118. The Second Commandment
  119. The Wisdom Of God
  120. Sermons upon 1 John III: Sermon 7
  121. The Faithul Followers of Christ Must Expect Troubles in This World
  122. The Sixth Petition in the Lord's Prayer
  123. Christ’s Temptation and Transfiguration: Sermon 7
  124. The Lord's Prayer: And lead us not into temptation: 1. Negatively, Lead us not into temptation: 2. Affirmatively, But deliver us from evil
  125. The Fourth Commandment
  126. Sermons upon 2 Thessalonians I: Sermon 8
  127. The Lord's Prayer: But deliver us from evil
  128. The Holiness Of God
  129. Looking Back Ill Becomes Those That Hsve Set Their Face Heavenward
  130. Psalm 119: Sermon 9
  131. Psalm 119: Sermon 10
  132. Sermons upon 2 Thessalonians I: Sermon 10
  133. Twenty Sermons: Sermon 10 ()
  134. Sermons upon Philippians iii. 7-21: Sermon 11
  135. Sermons upon 2 Thessalonians I: Sermon 11
  136. Twenty Sermons: Sermon 11 ()
  137. Psalm 119: Sermon 11
  138. Sermons upon 2 Thessalonians I: Sermon 12
  139. Christian meekness
  140. Psalm 119: Sermon 12
  141. Sermons upon Philippians iii. 7-21: Sermon 13
  142. Twenty Sermons: Sermon 13 ()
  143. Eighteen Sermons on 2 Thessalonians 2: Sermon 14
  144. Sermons upon Philippians iii. 7-21: Sermon 14
  145. Eighteen Sermons on 2 Thessalonians 2: Sermon 15
  146. A discourse of mercifulness
  147. Sermons upon 2 Thessalonians I: Sermon 15
  148. Psalm 119: Sermon 16
  149. A description of heart-purity
  150. Psalm 119: Sermon 17
  151. Eighteen Sermons on 2 Thessalonians 2: Sermon 17
  152. Eighteen Sermons on 2 Thessalonians 2: Sermon 18
  153. Twenty Sermons: Sermon 19 ()
  154. They shall be called the children of God
  155. The Word
  156. Concerning persecution
  157. Psalm 119: Sermon 21
  158. Prayer
  159. Psalm 119: Sermon 23
  160. Psalm 119: Sermon 24
  161. Psalm 119: Sermon 25
    Thomas Manton · No. 25
  162. Psalm 119: Sermon 26
  163. Psalm 119: Sermon 29
  164. Psalm 119: Sermon 30
  165. Psalm 119: Sermon 33
  166. Psalm 119: Sermon 34
  167. Psalm 119: Sermon 35
  168. Psalm 119: Sermon 44
  169. Psalm 119: Sermon 50
  170. Psalm 119: Sermon 51
  171. Psalm 119: Sermon 54
  172. Psalm 119: Sermon 56
  173. Psalm 119: Sermon 64
  174. Psalm 119: Sermon 66
  175. Psalm 119: Sermon 69
  176. Psalm 119: Sermon 72
  177. Psalm 119: Sermon 74
  178. Psalm 119: Sermon 75
  179. Psalm 119: Sermon 76
  180. Psalm 119: Sermon 77
  181. Psalm 119: Sermon 80
  182. Psalm 119: Sermon 81
  183. Psalm 119: Sermon 88
  184. Psalm 119: Sermon 90
  185. Psalm 119: Sermon 94
  186. Psalm 119: Sermon 95
  187. Psalm 119: Sermon 98
  188. Psalm 119: Sermon 99
  189. Psalm 119: Sermon 101
  190. Psalm 119: Sermon 102
  191. Psalm 119: Sermon 103
  192. Psalm 119: Sermon 108
  193. Psalm 119: Sermon 113
  194. Psalm 119: Sermon 114
  195. Psalm 119: Sermon 115
  196. Psalm 119: Sermon 116
  197. Psalm 119: Sermon 128
  198. Psalm 119: Sermon 129
  199. Psalm 119: Sermon 135
  200. Psalm 119: Sermon 137
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