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1 ) James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
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2 ) My brethren, count it all joy when all of you fall into divers temptations,
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3 ) Knowing this, that the trying of your faith works patience.
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4 ) But let patience have her perfect work, that all of you may be perfect and entire, lacking nothing.
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5 ) If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all men liberally, and reproaches not, and it shall be given him.
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6 ) But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
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7 ) For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
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8 ) A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
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9 ) Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
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10 ) But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
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11 ) For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and the flower thereof falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
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12 ) Blessed is the man that endures temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them that love him.
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13 ) Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempts he any man:
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14 ) But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
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15 ) Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.
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16 ) Do not go astray, my beloved brethren.
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17 ) Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
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18 ) Of his own will brings forth he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first- fruits of his creatures.
