: i The evil tendency of JAMES, unruly passions and lusts. ness is sown in peace of them sight of the Lord, and he shall that make peace. CHAP. IV. lift you up. 11 Speak not evil one of Against covetousness, &c. another, brethren. He that ROM whence come wars and speaketh evil of his brother, and fightings among you? come judgeth his brother, speaketh they not hence, even of your lusts evil of the law, and judgeth the that war in your members ? law: but if thou judge the law, F 2 Ye lust and have not: ye thou art not a doer of the law, kill, and desire to have, and but a judge. cannot obtain: ye fight and war, 12 There is one lawgiver, yet ye have not, because ye ask who is able to save, and to destroy: who art thou that judgest not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, another? because ye ask amiss, that ye 13 Go to now, ye that say, may consume it upon your lusts. To-day or to-morrow we will 4 Ye adulterers and adulte-go into such a city, and continue resses, know ye not that the there a year, and buy, and sell, friendship of the world is enmity and get gain: with God? whosoever therefore 14 Whereas ye know not what will be a friend of the world is shall be on the morrow. For the enemy of God. what is your life? It is even a va 5 Do ye think that the scrip- pour, that appeareth for a little ture saith in vain, The spirit time, and then vanisheth away. that dwelleth in us lusteth to 15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, envy? 6 But he giveth more grace. and do this, or that. Wherefore he saith, God resist- 16 But now ye rejoice in your eth the proud, but giveth grace boastings: all such rejoicing is unto the humble. evil. 7 Submit yourselves therefore 17 Therefore to him that to God. Resist the devil, and knoweth to do good, and doeth he will flee from you. 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded. it not, to him it is sin. CHAP. V. Of wicked rich men, &c. O to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries GO that shall come upon you. 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 3 Your gold and silver is 10 Humble yourselves in the cankered; and the rust of them 382 To be patient in affliction. CHAP. V. Efficacy of fervent prayer. shall be a witness against you, 12 But above all things, my and shall eat your flesh as it brethren, swear not, neither by were fire. Ye have heaped trea- heaven, neither by the earth, sure together for the last days. neither by any other oath: but 4 Behold, the hire of the let your yea, be yea; and your labourers who have reaped nay, nay; lest ye fall into condown your fields, which is of demnation. you kept back by fraud, crieth; 13 Is any among you afflicted? and the cries of them which let him pray. Is any merry? have reaped are entered into let him sing psalms. the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. 14 Is any sick among you? 5 Ye have lived in pleasure let him call for the elders of the on the earth, and been wanton; church; and let them pray over ye have nourished your hearts, him, anointing him with oil in as in a day of slaughter. the name of the Lord: 6 Ye have condemned and 15 And the prayer of faith killed the just; and he doth not shall save the sick, and the Lord resist you. shall raise him up; and if he 7 Be patient therefore, breth- have committed sins, they shall ren, unto the coming of the be forgiven him. Lord. Behold, the husbandman 16 Confess your faults one waiteth for the precious fruit of to another, and pray one for the earth, and hath long pa- another, that ye may be healtience for it, until he receive ed. The effectual fervent prayer the early and latter rain. of a righteous man availeth 8 Be ye also patient; establish much. your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. 17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he 9 Grudge not one against prayed earnestly that it might another, brethren, lest ye be not rain: and it rained not on condemned: behold, the Judge the earth by the space of three standeth before the door. years and six months. 10 Take, my brethren, the 18 And he prayed again, and prophets, who have spoken in the heaven gave rain, and the the name of the Lord, for an earth brought forth her fruit. example of suffering affliction, 19 Brethren, if any of you and of patience. do err from the truth, and one 11 Behold, we count them convert him ; happy which endure. Ye have 20 Let him know, that he heard of the patience of Job, which converteth the sinner and have seen the end of the from the error of his way shall Lord; that the Lord is very save a soul from death, and shall pitiful, and of tender mercy. hide a multitude of sins. The First Epistle general of PETER. CHAP. I. love; in whom, though now ye Of God's manifold spiritual grace. see him not, yet believing, ye an PETER apostle of Jesus rejoice with joy unspeakable, Christ, to the strangers and full of glory: scattered throughout Pontus, 9 Receiving the end of your Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and faith, even the salvation of your Bithynia, souls. 2 Elect according to the fore- 10 Of which salvation the knowledge of God the Father, prophets have inquired and through sanctification of the searched diligently, who proSpirit, unto obedience and phesied of the grace that should sprinkling of the blood of Jesus come unto you: Christ: Grace unto you, and 11 Searching what, or what peace, be multiplied. manner of time the Spirit of 3 Blessed be the God and Christ which was in them did Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, signify, when it testified beforewhich, according to his abun-hand the sufferings of Christ, dant mercy, hath begotten us and the glory that should follow. again unto a lively hope by the 12 Unto whom it was revealresurrection of Jesus Christ from ed, that not unto themselves, but the dead, unto us they did minister the 4 To an inheritance incor-things which are now reported ruptible, and undefiled, and that unto you by them that have fadeth not away, reserved in preached the gospel unto you, heaven for you, with the Holy Ghost sent down 5 Who are kept by the power from heaven; which things the of God through faith unto salva-angels desire to look into. tion, ready to be revealed in 13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, the last time. 6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, and hope to the end for the though now for a season (if need grace that is to be brought unto be) ye are in heaviness through you at the revelation of Jesus manifold temptations: Christ: 7 That the trial of your faith, 14 As obedient children, not being much more precious than fashioning yourselves according of gold that perisheth, though to the former lusts in your ignoit be tried with fire, might be rance: found unto praise, and honour, 15 But as he which hath and glory, at the appearing of called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversa Jesus Christ : 8 Whom having not seen, yeltion; Exhortation to holiness. CHAP. II. Christ the corner-stone. 16 Because it is written, Be endureth for ever. And this is ye holy; for I am holy. the word which by the gospel is CHAP. II. 17 And if ye call on the Fa- preached unto you. ther, who without respect of persons judgeth according to To avoid uncharitableness. every man's work, pass the time WHEREFORE, laying of your sojourning here in fear: aside all malice, and all 18 Forasmuch as ye know guile, and hypocrisies, and enthat ye were not redeemed with vies, and all evil-speakings, corruptible things, as silver and 2 As new-born babes, desire gold, from your vain conversa- the sincere milk of the word, tion received by tradition from that ye may grow thereby : your fathers; 3 If so be ye have tasted that 19 But with the precious the Lord is gracious: blood of Christ, as of a lamb 4 To whom coming as unto a without blemish and without living stone, disallowed indeed spot : of men, but chosen of God, and 20 Who verily was fore-or-precious, dained before the foundation of 5 Ye also, as lively stones, the world, but was manifest in are built up a spiritual house, these last times for you, a holy priesthood, to offer up 21 Who by him do believe in spiritual sacrifices, acceptable God, that raised him up from to God by Jesus Christ. the dead, and gave him glory; 6 Wherefore also it is conthat your faith and hope might tained in the scripture, Behold, be in God. I lay in Sion a chief corner 22 Seeing ye havé purified stone, elect, precious: and he your souls in obeying the truth that believeth on him shall not through the Spirit unto unfeign- be confounded. ed love of the brethren, see that 7 Unto you therefore which ye love one another with a pure believe, he is precious: but unto heart fervently : them which be disobedient, the 23 Being born again, not of stone which the builders disalcorruptible seed, but of incor-lowed, the same is made the ruptible, by the word of God, head of the corner, which liveth and abideth for 8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to ever. 24 For all flesh is as grass, them which stumble at the word, and all the glory of man as the being disobedient: whereunto flower of grass. The grass wi- also they were appointed. thereth, and the flower thereof 9 But ye are a chosen genefalleth away: ration, a royal priesthood, a 25 But the word of the Lord holy nation, a peculiar people; 1. PETER. Obedience to superiors. Christ our example. that ye should shew forth the 19 For this is thank-worthy, praises of him who hath called if a man for conscience toward you out of darkness into his mar-God endure grief, suffering vellous light: wrongfully. 10 Which in time past were not 20 For what glory is it, if, a people, but are now the people when ye be buffeted for your of God: which had not obtained faults, ye shall take it patiently? mercy, but now have obtained but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, mercy. 11 Dearly beloved, I beseech this is acceptable with God. you, as strangers and pilgrims, 21 For even hereunto were abstain from fleshly lusts, which ye called: because Christ also war against the soul; suffered for us, leaving us an 12 Having your conversation example, that ye should follow honest among the Gentiles: that, his steps: whereas they speak against you 22 Who did no sin, neither as evil-doers, they may by your was guile found in his mouth: good works, which they shall 23 Who, when he was reviled, behold, glorify God in the day of reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but visitation. 13 Submit yourselves to every committed himself to him that ordinance of man for the Lord's judgeth righteously : sake: whether it be to the king, 24 Who his own self bare our as supreme; sins in his own body on the tree, 14 Or unto governors, as unto that we, being dead to sins, them that are sent by him for should live unto righteousness: the punishment of evil-doers, by whose stripes ye were healed. and for the praise of them that 25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned do well. 15 For so is the will of God, unto the Shepherd and Bishop that with well-doing ye may put of your souls. to silence the ignorance of foolish men: CHAP. III. Duty of wives and husbands. 16 As free, and not using your LIKEWISE, be in wives, ye liberty for a cloak of malicious- subjection to your own ness, but as the servants of God. husbands; that, if any obey not 17 Honour all men. Love the the word, they also may without brotherhood. Fear God. Ho-the word be won by the convernour the king. sation of the wives; 18 Servants, be subject to your 2 While they behold your masters with all fear; not only chaste conversation coupled with to the good and gentle, but also fear. to the froward. 3 Whose adorning let it not |