O Lord, I am your servant; I am your servant, the child of your serving girl. You have loosed my bonds.
For your servant's sake, O Lord, and according to your own heart, you have done all these great deeds, making known all these great things.
I am your servant; give me understanding, so that I may know your decrees.
In your steadfast love cut off my enemies, and destroy all my adversaries, for I am your servant.
Turn to me and be gracious to me; give your strength to your servant; save the child of your serving girl.
The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me; he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to the prisoners;
Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. Whoever serves me, the Father will honor.
For last night there stood by me an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I worship,
But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage you get is sanctification. The end is eternal life.
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings.