{
    "translation": "Webster's Bible",
    "abbreviation": "wb",
    "lang": "en",
    "language": "English",
    "direction": "LTR",
    "encoding": "",
    "book_nr": 59,
    "book_name": "James",
    "chapter": 1,
    "name": "James 1",
    "verses": [
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 1,
            "name": "James 1:1",
            "text": "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 2,
            "name": "James 1:2",
            "text": "My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 3,
            "name": "James 1:3",
            "text": "Knowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh patience."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 4,
            "name": "James 1:4",
            "text": "But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 5,
            "name": "James 1:5",
            "text": "If any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given to him."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 6,
            "name": "James 1:6",
            "text": "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."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 7,
            "name": "James 1:7",
            "text": "For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing from the Lord."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 8,
            "name": "James 1:8",
            "text": "A man unsettled in his opinions [is] unstable in all his ways."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 9,
            "name": "James 1:9",
            "text": "Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 10,
            "name": "James 1:10",
            "text": "But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 11,
            "name": "James 1:11",
            "text": "For the sun hath no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and its flower falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 12,
            "name": "James 1:12",
            "text": "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."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 13,
            "name": "James 1:13",
            "text": "Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted by God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 14,
            "name": "James 1:14",
            "text": "But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 15,
            "name": "James 1:15",
            "text": "Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 16,
            "name": "James 1:16",
            "text": "Do not err, my beloved brethren."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 17,
            "name": "James 1:17",
            "text": "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."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 18,
            "name": "James 1:18",
            "text": "Of his own will he hath begotten us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 19,
            "name": "James 1:19",
            "text": "Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 20,
            "name": "James 1:20",
            "text": "For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 21,
            "name": "James 1:21",
            "text": "Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 22,
            "name": "James 1:22",
            "text": "But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 23,
            "name": "James 1:23",
            "text": "For if any is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a glass:"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 24,
            "name": "James 1:24",
            "text": "For he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and immediately forgetteth what manner of man he was."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 25,
            "name": "James 1:25",
            "text": "But he who looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth [in it], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 26,
            "name": "James 1:26",
            "text": "If any man among you seemeth to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion [is] vain."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 27,
            "name": "James 1:27",
            "text": "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."
        }
    ]
}