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James 1

King James Version · 27 verses · 1,360 cross-references linking it to 493 other chapters

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  1. 1James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.81 cross-references: Ezekiel 12:15, 1 Peter 1:1, John 7:35, Acts 8:1, Acts 26:7
  2. 2My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;56 cross-references: 1 Peter 1:6–8, James 1:12, 2 Corinthians 12:9–10, Matthew 5:10–12, Luke 6:22–23
  3. 3Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.28 cross-references: Romans 5:3–4, Hebrews 10:36, Colossians 1:11, Romans 8:28, 1 Peter 1:7
  4. 4But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.33 cross-references: 1 Peter 5:10, Matthew 5:48, Luke 21:19, 2 Timothy 3:17, Habakkuk 2:3
  5. 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.102 cross-references: Proverbs 2:3–6, John 15:7, Jeremiah 29:12–13, Proverbs 3:5–7, 1 John 5:14–15
  6. 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.25 cross-references: Matthew 21:21–22, Hebrews 11:6, Mark 11:22–24, Ephesians 4:14, Hebrews 10:23
  7. 7For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.6 cross-references: James 4:3, Isaiah 58:3–4, Isaiah 1:15, Proverbs 15:8, Proverbs 21:27
  8. 8A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.24 cross-references: 1 Kings 18:21, Matthew 6:24, James 4:8, Isaiah 29:13, 2 Peter 2:14
  9. 9Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:46 cross-references: Jeremiah 9:23–24, James 2:5–6, Proverbs 19:1, 2 Corinthians 6:10, Revelation 2:9
  10. 10But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.45 cross-references: 1 Peter 1:24, 1 John 2:17, Job 14:2, 1 Timothy 6:17, Matthew 5:3
  11. 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.41 cross-references: Isaiah 40:7–8, Psalms 37:35–36, Mark 4:6, Luke 16:19–25, Luke 12:16–21
  12. 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.102 cross-references: 1 Peter 5:10, 1 Peter 1:6–8, Revelation 2:10, James 5:11, Romans 8:28
  13. 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:24 cross-references: Habakkuk 2:12–13, James 1:12, Romans 9:19–20, Isaiah 63:17, James 1:2
  14. 14But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.49 cross-references: Mark 7:21–22, Ephesians 4:22, Matthew 15:18, Hebrews 3:13, Romans 7:13
  15. 15Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.34 cross-references: Psalms 7:14, Job 15:35, Romans 5:12–21, Genesis 2:17, Isaiah 59:4
  16. 16Do not err, my beloved brethren.40 cross-references: James 1:19, Galatians 6:7, Philippians 2:12, Colossians 2:8, Colossians 2:4
  17. 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.129 cross-references: John 3:27, Matthew 7:11, Hebrews 13:8, John 8:12, Numbers 23:19
  18. 18Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.67 cross-references: Romans 8:29–31, 1 Peter 1:23, John 3:3–5, John 1:13, 1 Peter 1:3
  19. 19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:94 cross-references: Proverbs 17:27, Proverbs 21:23, Proverbs 14:29, Proverbs 10:19, Proverbs 18:13
  20. 20For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.15 cross-references: 2 Timothy 2:24–25, Ephesians 4:26, James 3:17–18, Numbers 20:11–12
  21. 21Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.70 cross-references: Ephesians 4:22, Ephesians 1:13, 1 Peter 2:11, John 6:63, Psalms 25:9
  22. 22But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.66 cross-references: Romans 2:13, Luke 6:46–48, John 13:17, James 4:17, 1 John 2:3
  23. 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:15 cross-references: Matthew 7:26–27, Ezekiel 33:31–32, James 2:14–26, Luke 6:47, Jeremiah 44:16
  24. 24For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.8 cross-references: 2 Peter 3:11, Luke 1:66, Luke 7:39, Judges 8:18, 1 Thessalonians 1:5
  25. 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.63 cross-references: Luke 11:28, John 13:17, 2 Corinthians 3:17–18, 1 Peter 2:16, Luke 6:47–49
  26. 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.64 cross-references: Ephesians 4:29, Psalms 141:3, 1 Peter 3:10, Ephesians 5:4, Proverbs 19:1
  27. 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.61 cross-references: Isaiah 1:16–17, 1 John 3:17–19, Galatians 6:9–10, Romans 12:2, Matthew 25:34–46

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