Scripture: James 1

Chapter:
1 2 3 4 5

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

JAMES 1:1

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

JAMES 1:2

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

JAMES 1:3

But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

JAMES 1:4

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.

JAMES 1:5

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.

JAMES 1:6

For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

JAMES 1:7

A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

JAMES 1:8

Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:

JAMES 1:9

But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

JAMES 1:10

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.

JAMES 1:11

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.

JAMES 1:12

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:

JAMES 1:13

But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

JAMES 1:14

Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

JAMES 1:15

Do not err, my beloved brethren.

JAMES 1:16

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.

JAMES 1:17

Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

JAMES 1:18

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

JAMES 1:19

For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

JAMES 1:20

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

JAMES 1:21

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

JAMES 1:22

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:

JAMES 1:23

For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

JAMES 1:24

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.

JAMES 1:25

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.

JAMES 1:26

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.

JAMES 1:27

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James 1
CHURCH FATHERS: 17

1. Clement of Rome | CHURCH FATHER 97 AD

| Wikipedia: Pope_Clement_I

James was APPROVED (75%) by Clement of Rome
(Citation; approving quotation; alluded to; acceptable with changes)

2. Ignatius of Antioch | CHURCH FATHER 110 AD

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James was REJECTED (0%) by Ignatius of Antioch
(No mention; no quotes; opinion unknown)

3. Barnabas | CHURCH FATHER 130 AD

| Wikipedia: Barnabas

James was REJECTED (0%) by Barnabas
(No mention; no quotes; opinion unknown)

4. Hermas | CHURCH FATHER 140 AD

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James was APPROVED (75%) by Hermas
(Citation; approving quotation; alluded to; acceptable with changes)

5. Papias of Hierapolis | CHURCH FATHER 140 AD

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James was REJECTED (0%) by Papias of Hierapolis
(No mention; no quotes; opinion unknown)

6. Polycarp | CHURCH FATHER 150 AD

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James was REJECTED (0%) by Polycarp
(No mention; no quotes; opinion unknown)

7. Didache | CHURCH FATHER 150 AD

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James was REJECTED (0%) by Didache
(No mention; no quotes; opinion unknown)

8. Diognetus | CHURCH FATHER 150 AD

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James was REJECTED (0%) by Diognetus
(No mention; no quotes; opinion unknown)

9. Justin Martyr | CHURCH FATHER 155 AD

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James was REJECTED (0%) by Justin Martyr
(No mention; no quotes; opinion unknown)

10. Irenaeous | CHURCH FATHER 202 AD

| Wikipedia: Irenaeus

James was REJECTED (0%) by Irenaeous
(No mention; no quotes; opinion unknown)

11. Clement of Alexandria | CHURCH FATHER 215 AD

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James was REJECTED (0%) by Clement of Alexandria
(No mention; no quotes; opinion unknown)

12. Tertullian | CHURCH FATHER 220 AD

| Wikipedia: Tertullian

James was REJECTED (0%) by Tertullian
(No mention; no quotes; opinion unknown)

13. Origen | CHURCH FATHER 254 AD

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James was REJECTED (0%) by Origen
(No mention; no quotes; opinion unknown)

14. Eusebius of Caesarea | CHURCH FATHER 340 AD

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James was DISPUTED (50%) by Eusebius of Caesarea
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15. Athanasius of Alexandria | CHURCH FATHER 367 AD

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James was FULLY ACCEPTED (100%) by Athanasius of Alexandria
(Fully accepted; true scripture; quoted approvingly)

16. Cyril of Jerusalem | CHURCH FATHER 386 AD

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James was FULLY ACCEPTED (100%) by Cyril of Jerusalem
(Fully accepted; true scripture; quoted approvingly)

17. Augustine of Hippo | CHURCH FATHER 400 AD

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James was FULLY ACCEPTED (100%) by Augustine of Hippo
(Fully accepted; true scripture; quoted approvingly)

James 1
BIBLE CANON: 5

A biblical canon is a set of texts (or "books") which a particular religious community regards as authoritative scripture. Christians were the first to use the term in reference to scripture.

These bible canons have developed through debate and agreement by the religious authorities.

| Wikipedia: Biblical_canon

1. Marcion Canon | BIBLE CANON 140 AD
Marcionism was a religious movement based on the teachings of the 2nd-century Marcion of Sinope. Marcions Canon lists 14 books out of the 27 books in the New Testament. More specifically, these were Luke and Paul's 13 writings. Marcion even rejected the entire Old Testament of 39 books.

bible.ca/marcion

| Wikipedia: Marcion_of_Sinope

James was REJECTED (0%) by Marcion Canon
(No mention; no quotes; opinion unknown)

2. Muratorian Canon | BIBLE CANON 170 AD
The Muratorian Canon is an ancient list of New Testament books - the oldest such list we have found and lists 22 of the 27 books that were later included in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.

It is noteworthy that the Muratorian Canon omits several epistles that later did win acceptance in the Christian New Testament such as the books of James and 2 Peter.

gotquestions.org/muratorian

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James was REJECTED (0%) by Muratorian Canon
(No mention; no quotes; opinion unknown)

3. Apostolic Canon | BIBLE CANON 300 AD
Apostolic Canons or Ecclesiastical Canons

| Wikipedia: Canons_of_the_Apostles

James was FULLY ACCEPTED (100%) by Apostolic Canon
(Fully accepted; true scripture; quoted approvingly)

4. Cheltenham/ Mommsen List | BIBLE CANON 360 AD
The Cheltenham or Mommsen List is a Latin manuscript discovered by the German classical scholar Theodor Mommsen (published 1886) which probably originated in North Africa in the 4th century.

It has 24-book Old Testament and 24-book New Testament which omits Jude and James, and perhaps Hebrews, and questions the epistles of John and Peter.

bible-researcher.com/cheltenham

| Wikipedia: Theodor_Mommsen

James was REJECTED (0%) by Cheltenham/ Mommsen List
(No mention; no quotes; opinion unknown)

5. Council of Rome | BIBLE CANON 382 AD
The Council of Rome was a meeting of Catholic Church officials and theologians which took place in 382 under the authority of Pope Damasus I, bishop of Rome.

According to a document appended to some manuscripts, the Council of Rome affirmed the authority of the Old and New Testament canon in a decretal or damasine list.

| Wikipedia: Council_of_Rome

James was FULLY ACCEPTED (100%) by Council of Rome
(Fully accepted; true scripture; quoted approvingly)

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