{"product_id":"2940149089499","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 66: James","description":"THE CATHOLIC EPISTLE OF ST. JAMES THE APOSTLE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis Epistle is called Catholic or Universal, as formerly were also the\u003cbr\u003etwo Epistles of St. Peter, the first of St. John and that of St. Jude,\u003cbr\u003ebecause they were not written to any peculiar people or particular\u003cbr\u003eperson, but to the faithful in general. It was written by the apostle\u003cbr\u003eSt. James, called the Less, who was also called the brother of our Lord,\u003cbr\u003ebeing his kinsman (for cousins german with the Hebrews were called\u003cbr\u003ebrothers). He was the first Bishop of Jerusalem. In this Epistle are set\u003cbr\u003eforth many precepts appertaining to faith and morals; particularly, that\u003cbr\u003efaith without good works will not save a man and that true wisdom is\u003cbr\u003egiven only from above. In the fifth chapter he publishes the sacrament\u003cbr\u003eof anointing the sick. It was written a short time before his martyrdom,\u003cbr\u003eabout twenty-eight years after our Lord's Ascension.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Chapter 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe benefit of tribulations. Prayer with faith. God is the author of all\u003cbr\u003egood, but not of evil. We must be slow to anger and not hearers only,\u003cbr\u003ebut doers of the word. Of bridling the tongue and of pure religion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:1. James, the servant of God and of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the\u003cbr\u003etwelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:2. My brethren, count it all joy, when you shall fall into divers\u003cbr\u003etemptations:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInto divers temptations... The word temptation, in this epistle, is\u003cbr\u003esometimes taken for trials by afflictions or persecutions, as in this\u003cbr\u003eplace: at other times, it is to be understood, tempting, enticing, or\u003cbr\u003edrawing others into sin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:3. Knowing that the trying of your faith worketh patience\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:4. And patience hath a perfect work: that you may be perfect and\u003cbr\u003eentire, failing in nothing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:5. But if any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God who giveth to all\u003cbr\u003emen abundantly and upbraideth not. And it shall be given him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:6. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is\u003cbr\u003elike a wave of the sea, which is moved and carried about by the wind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:7. Therefore let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of\u003cbr\u003ethe Lord.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:8. A double minded man is inconstant in all his ways.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:9. But let the brother of low condition glory in his exaltation:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:10. And the rich, in his being low: because as the flower of the grass\u003cbr\u003eshall he pass away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:11. For the sun rose with a burning heat and parched the grass: and\u003cbr\u003ethe flower thereof fell off, and the beauty of the shape thereof\u003cbr\u003eperished. So also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:12. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for, when he hath\u003cbr\u003ebeen proved, he shall receive the crown of life which God hath promised\u003cbr\u003eto them that love him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:13. Let no man, when he is tempted, say that he is tempted by God. For\u003cbr\u003eGod is not a tempter of evils: and he tempteth no man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:14. But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn\u003cbr\u003eaway and allured.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:15. Then, when concupiscence hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin.\u003cbr\u003eBut sin, when it is completed, begetteth death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:16. Do not err, therefore, my dearest brethren.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:17. Every best gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down\u003cbr\u003efrom the Father of lights, with whom there is no change nor shadow of\u003cbr\u003ealteration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:18. For of his own will hath he begotten us by the word of truth, that\u003cbr\u003ewe might be some beginning of his creature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome beginning... That is, a kind of first fruits of his creatures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:19. You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear,\u003cbr\u003ebut slow to speak and slow to anger.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:20. For the anger of man worketh not the justice of God.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:21. Wherefore, casting away all uncleanness and abundance of\u003cbr\u003enaughtiness, with meekness receive the ingrafted word, which is able to\u003cbr\u003esave your souls.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:22. But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your\u003cbr\u003eown selves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:23. For if a man be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he shall be\u003cbr\u003ecompared to a man beholding his own countenance in a glass.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:24. For he beheld himself and went his way and presently forgot what\u003cbr\u003emanner of man he was.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:25. But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty and hath\u003cbr\u003econtinued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer but a doer of the\u003cbr\u003ework: this man shall be blessed in his deed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:26. And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his\u003cbr\u003etongue but deceiving his own heart, this man's religion is vain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:27. Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to\u003cbr\u003evisit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation and to keep one's\u003cbr\u003eself unspotted from this world.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lost Leaf Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47109117477104,"sku":"2940149089499","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149089499_p0.jpg?v=1763712212","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149089499","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}