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   Bible Reading for November 15   
      
   James 1   
   [1] James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes   
   which are scattered abroad, greeting. [2] My brethren, count it all joy when   
   ye fall into divers temptations; [3] Knowing this, that the trying of your   
   faith worketh patience. [4] But let patience have her perfect work, that ye   
   may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.   
   [5] 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. [6] But let him ask   
   in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea   
   driven with the wind and tossed. [7] For let not that man think that he shall   
   receive any thing of the Lord. [8] A double minded man is unstable in all his   
   ways. [9] Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: [10]   
   But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he   
   shall pass away.   
   [11] For 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. [12] Blessed 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.   
   [13] Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be   
   tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: [14] But every man is tempted,   
   when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.   
   [15] Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is   
   finished, bringeth forth death.   
   [16] Do not err, my beloved brethren. [17] Every 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.   
   [18] Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a   
   kind of firstfruits of his creatures. [19] Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let   
   every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:   
   [20] For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. [21] Wherefore   
   lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with   
   meekness 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 any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man   
   beholding his natural face in a glass: [24] For he beholdeth himself, and   
   goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.   
   [25] But 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.   
   [26] If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue,   
   but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. [27] Pure 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.   
      
   James 2   
   [1] My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of   
   glory, with respect of persons.   
   [2] For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly   
   apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; [3] And ye have   
   respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here   
   in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my   
   footstool:   
   [4] Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil   
   thoughts?   
   [5] Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world   
   rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that   
   love him?   
   [6] But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you   
   before the judgment seats?   
   [7] Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called? [8] If   
   ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy   
   neighbour as thyself, ye do well: [9] But if ye have respect to persons, ye   
   commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.   
   [10] For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he   
   is guilty of all.   
   [11] For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if   
   thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of   
   the law.   
   [12] So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of   
   liberty.   
   [13] For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and   
   mercy rejoiceth against judgment. [14] What doth it profit, my brethren,   
   though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? [15]   
   If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, [16] And one of   
   you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding   
   ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it   
   profit?   
   [17] Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. [18] Yea, a   
   man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy   
   works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. [19] Thou believest that   
   there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.   
   [20] But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? [21]   
   Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his   
   son upon the altar?   
   [22] Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made   
   perfect?   
   [23] And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it   
   was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.   
   [24] Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.   
   [25] Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had   
   received the messengers, and had sent them out another way? [26] For as the   
   body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.   
      
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