James 1:1-10 ▼

1 JAMES, a servant of God, and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes that are in the dispersion, greeting.

2 My brethren, count it all joy, when you fall into manifold trials,

3 knowing that the trial of your faith produces patience.

4 But let patience have its work perfected, that you may be perfect and faultless, wanting in nothing.

5 Now, if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally, and upbraids not; and it shall be given him.

6 But let him ask in faith, doubting not: for he that doubts, is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind, and tossed.

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

8 A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.

9 Let the brother that is in a lowly condition, glory in his exaltation:

10 but he that is rich, in his humiliation; because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.