1James, the seruaunt of God, and of oure Lord Jhesu Crist, to the twelue kinredis, that ben in scatering abrood, helthe. 2My britheren, deme ye al ioye, whanne ye fallen in to diuerse temptaciouns, witynge, 3that the preuyng of youre feith worchith pacience; 4and pacience hath a perfit werk, that ye be perfit and hole, and faile in no thing. 5And if ony of you nedith wisdom, axe he of God, which yyueth to alle men largeli, and vpbreidith not; and it schal be youun to hym. 6But axe he in feith, and doute no thing; for he that doutith, is lijk to a wawe of the see, which is moued and borun a boute of wynde. 7Therfor gesse not the ilke man, that he schal take ony thing of the Lord. 8A man dowble in soule is vnstable in alle hise weies. 9And a meke brother haue glorie in his enhaunsyng, 10and a riche man in his lownesse; for as the flour of gras he schal passe. 11The sunne roos vp with heete, and driede the gras, and the flour of it felde doun, and the fairnesse of his chere perischide; and so a riche man welewith in hise weies. 12Blessid is the man, that suffrith temptacioun; for whanne he schal be preued, he schal resseyue the coroun of lijf, which God biheyte to men that louen hym. 13No man whanne he is temptid, seie, that he is temptid of God; for whi God is not a temptere of yuele thingis, for he temptith no man. 14But ech man is temptid, drawun and stirid of his owne coueiting. 15Aftirward coueityng, whanne it hath conseyued, bringith forth synne; but synne, whanne it is fillid, gendrith deth. 16Therfor, my most dereworthe britheren, nyle ye erre. 17Ech good yifte, and ech perfit yifte is from aboue, and cometh doun fro the fadir of liytis, anentis whom is noon other chaungyng, ne ouerschadewyng of reward. 18For wilfulli he bigat vs bi the word of treuthe, that we be a bigynnyng of his creature. 19Wite ye, my britheren moost loued, be ech man swift to here, but slow to speke, and slow to wraththe; 20for the wraththe of man worchith not the riytwisnesse of God. 21For which thing caste ye awei al vnclennesse, and plentee of malice, and in myldenesse resseyue ye the word that is plauntid, that may saue youre soulis. 22But be ye doeris of the word, and not hereris oneli, disseiuynge you silf. 23For if ony man is an herere of the word, and not a doere, this schal be licned to a man that biholdith the cheer of his birthe in a mirour; 24for he bihelde hym silf, and wente awei, and anoon he foryat which he was. 25But he that biholdith in the lawe of perfit fredom, and dwellith in it, and is not maad a foryetful herere, but a doere of werk, this schal be blessid in his dede. 26And if ony man gessith hym silf to be religiouse, and refreyneth not his tunge, but disseyueth his herte, the religioun of him is veyn. 27A clene religioun, and an vnwemmed anentis God and the fadir, is this, to visite fadirles and modirles children, and widewis in her tribulacioun, and to kepe hym silf vndefoulid fro this world.