1. James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,To the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad:Greetings.
2. My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into diverse temptations,
3. knowing that the trying of your faith develops patience.
4. But let patience perfect its work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
5. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all men liberally and without criticism, and it will be given to him.
6. But let him ask in faith, without wavering. For he who wavers is like a wave of the sea, driven and tossed with the wind.
7. Let not that man think that he will receive anything from the Lord.
8. A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.
9. Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted,
10. but the rich in that he is made low, because as the flower of the grass he will pass away.
11. For the sun rises with a burning heat and it withers the grass, and its flowers fall, and its beauty perishes. So will the rich man wither away in his ways.
12. Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he is tried, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.