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¹ JAMES, a servant of God and of our LORD Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered among the Gentiles, greeting.

² MY brethren, take it as a joy to you when you enter into many and divers temptations;³ For you know that the trial of faith will increase your patience.⁴ And let patience be a perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, lacking nothing.⁵ If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all men liberally and with grace; and it shall be given him.⁶ But let him ask in faith, not doubting. For he who doubts is like the waves of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.⁷ Thus let not that man expect that he will receive anything of the LORD.⁸ A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.⁹ Let the brother of low estate rejoice because he is exalted.¹⁰ Let the rich man rejoice in his humbleness: because as the flower of the grass, so shall he pass away.¹¹ For as the sun rises with its burning heat and causes the grass to wither, and the flower to fall and its beauty to perish: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.¹² Blessed is the man who endures temptations: for when he is tested, he shall receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.

¹³ Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither does he tempt any man:¹⁴ But every man is tempted by his own lust; and he covets and is enticed.¹⁵ Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin when it has matured, brings forth death.¹⁶ Do not err, my beloved brethren.¹⁷ Every good and perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variableness nor shadow of change.¹⁸ It is he, who begot us of his own will with the word of truth, that we should be the firstfruits of his creatures.

¹⁹ Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, and slow to speak, and slow to anger:²⁰ For the wrath of man does not bring about the righteousness of God.²¹ Wherefore cast away all filthiness, and all the multitude of evil things, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.²² But you be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.²³ For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man who sees his face in a mirror;²⁴ For he sees himself and goes his way, and forgets how he looked.²⁵ But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and abides in it, is not merely a hearer of the word which can be forgotten but a doer of the work, and this man shall be blessed in his work.²⁶ If any man thinks that he ministers to God, and does not control his tongue, he deceives his own heart, and this man''s ministry is in vain.²⁷ For a pure and holy ministry before God, the Father, is this, To visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.