James greets the twelve tribes among the nations; |
exhorts to rejoice in trials and temptations; |
to ask patience of God; |
12 Μακάριος ἀνὴρ ὃς ὑπομένει πειρασμόν, ὅτι δόκιμος γενόμενος λήμψεται τὸν στέφανον τῆς ζωῆς ὃν ἐπηγγείλατο τοῖς ἀγαπῶσιν αὐτόν. |
and in our trials not to impute our weakness, or sins, to him, |
but rather to hearken to the word, to meditate on it, and to do thereafter. |
Otherwise men may seem, but never be, truly religious. |