James 1:1-14 ▼

1 James, the servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes who are in the Dispersion, greeting.

2 Count it all joy, my brethren, when you may fall into manifold temptations.

3 Knowing that the trial of your faith works out endurance.

4 But let endurance have its perfect work, in order that you may be perfect and whole in every part, lacking in nothing.

5 But if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all cheerfully and upbraids none; and it will be given unto him.

6 But let him ask in faith, doubting as to nothing; for he that doubts is like unto a wave of the sea driven by the winds and tossed by the tempest.

7 For let not that man think that he will receive anything from the Lord,

8 the double-minded man, the most unstable in all his ways.

9 But let the humble brother boast in his exaltation:

10 and the rich man, in his humility: because as the flower of the grass he will pass away.

11 For the sun with a scorching wind has risen, and dried up the grass, and its flower fell off, and the beauty of its countenance perished: so indeed the rich man will pass away in his ways.

12 Happy is the man who endures temptation: because, being proved, he will receive a crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him with divine love.

13 Let no one being tempted say, I am tempted from God. For God can not be tempted with evils, and he tempts no one:

14 but each one is tempted by his own lusts, being drawn out, and enticed.