Quotes from James

Quotations follow the King James Version translation (Oxford University Press, 1611) — our recommended edition.

1. 2

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

2. 3

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

3. 4

   For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

4. 5

   Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

5. 6

   Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

6. 7

   Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.

7. 8

   And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity.

8. 9

   The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

9. 10

   But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

10. 11

    Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights.

11. 12

    Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction.

12. 13

    Ye have heard of the patience of Job.

13. 14

    If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not.

14. 15

    Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.