Sacred Scripture · New Testament

James

5 Chapters · Douay-Rheims Bible · New Testament

About This Book

James contains 5 chapters in this CatholicG33k edition.

Chapter Directory

  1. Chapter 1The benefit of tribulations. Prayer with faith. God is the author of all good, but not of evil. We must be slow to anger and not hearers only, but doers of the word. Of bridling the tongue and of pure religion.
  2. Chapter 2Against respect of persons. The danger of transgressing one point of the law. Faith is dead without works.
  3. Chapter 3Of the evils of the tongue. Of the difference between the earthly and heavenly wisdom.
  4. Chapter 4The evils that flow from yielding to concupiscence and being friends to this world. Admonitions against pride, detraction and the like.
  5. Chapter 5A woe to the rich that oppress the poor. Exhortations to patience and to avoid swearing. Of the anointing the sick, confession of sins and fervour in prayer.

Edition Record

Book
James
Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible
Old Testament
First published at Douay in 1609
New Testament
First published at Rheims in 1582
Revision and Notes
Bishop Richard Challoner, 1749
Historical Imprimatur
James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, 1 September 1899