Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
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CHAP. I.
The benefit of tribulations. Prayer with faith. God is the
author of all good, but not of evil. We must be slow to anger;
and not hearers only, but doers of the word. Of bridling
the tongue, and of clean religion.
1 James the servant of
God, and of our Lord
Jesus Christ, to the
twelve tribes which are scattered
abroad, greeting.
2 My brethren, count it all
joy, when you shall fall into
divers temptations:
3 Knowing that the trying
of your faith worketh patience.
4 And patience hath a perfect
work: that you may be
perfect and entire, failing in
nothing.
5 But if any of you want
wisdom, let him ask of God,
who giveth to all abundantly,
and upbraideth not: and it
shall be given him.
6 But let him ask in faith,
nothing wavering. For he
that wavereth, is like a wave
of the sea, which is driven and
tossed about with the wind.
7 Therefore let not that
man think that he shall receive
any thing of the Lord.
8 A double-minded man
is inconstant in all his ways.
9 But let the brother of
low condition glory in his being
exalted;
10 But the rich, in his
being low, because as the
flower of the grass he shall
pass away.
11 For the sun rose with
a burning heat, and parched
the grass, and the flower
thereof fell off, and the beauty
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of the shape thereof perished:
so also shall the rich man fade
away in his ways.
12 Blessed is the man that
endureth temptation: for
when he hath been proved,
he shall receive the crown of
life, which God hath promised
to them that love him.
13 Let no man, when he
is tempted, say that he is
tempted by God: for God
is not a tempter of evils; and
he tempteth no man.
14 But every man is tempted
being drawn away by his
own concupiscence, and allured.
15 Then when concupiscence
hath conceived, it bringeth
forth sin. But sin, when it
is compleated begetteth death.
16 Do not err therefore,
my dearest brethren.
17 Every best gift, and
every perfect gift, is from above,
coming down from the
Father of lights, with whom
there is no change, nor shadow
of alteration.
18 For of his own will
hath he begotten us by the
word of truth, that we might
be note some beginning of his
creatures.
19 You know, my dearest
brethren. And let every man
be swift to hear; but slow to
speak, and slow to anger.
20 For the anger of man
worketh not the justice of God.
21 Wherefore casting away
all uncleanness, and abundance
of naughtiness, with meekness
receive the engrafted word,
which is able to save your souls.
22 But be ye doers of the
word, and not hearers only,
deceiving your own selves.
23 For if a man be a hearer
of the word, and not a doer;
he shall be compared to a
man beholding his natural
countenance in a glass.
24 For he beheld himself,
and went his way, and presently
forgot what manner of
man he was.
25 But he that hath looked
into the perfect law of liberty,
and hath continued therein,
not becoming a forgetful hearer,
but a doer of the work;
this man shall be blessed in his
deed.
26 And if any man think
himself to be religious, not
bridling his tongue, but deceiving
his own heart, this
man's religion is vain.
27 This is clean religion
and undefiled before God and
the Father: to visit the fatherless
and widows in their tribulation,
and to keep one's self
unspotted from this world.
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Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
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