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The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews
The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews, Chapter 1
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James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,
to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
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My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers
temptations;
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Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh
patience.
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But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and
entire, wanting nothing.
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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.
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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.
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For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the
Lord.
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A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
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Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
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But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the
grass he shall pass away.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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But
every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and
enticed.
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Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin,
when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
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Do not err, my beloved brethren.
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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.
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Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we
should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
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Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear,
slow to speak, slow to wrath:
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For the wrath of man worketh not
the righteousness of God.
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Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of
naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is
able to save your souls.
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But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your
own selves.
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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:
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For he
beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what
manner of man he was.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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