James 1:1-11 ▼

1 James, servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the dispersion, health.

2 Deem all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various trials;

3 Knowing that the proof of your faith works patience.

4 And let patience have a perfect work, that ye be perfect and entire, being left behind in nothing.

5 If any of you is forsaken of wisdom, let him ask of God, giving to all plainly, blaming not; and it shall be given him.

6 And let him ask in faith, being at variance in nothing. For he being at variance is like the surge of the sea being moved by the wind and put in motion.

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

8 A man divided in opinion unsteady in all his ways.

9 And let the humble brother boast in his elevation:

10 And the rich, in his humiliation: for as the flower of the grass he shall pass by.

11 For the sun sprang up with heat, and dried up the grass, and its flower fell out, and the decorum of its face was destroyed: so also shall the rich be dried up in his goings.