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¹ JAKUB, a servant of Aloha and of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, unto the twelve tribes who are dispersed among the nations: Peace.

² All joy shall be to you, my brethren, when you shall have entered into temptations many and various.³ For you know that the proving of faith maketh you to possess patience;⁴ but to patience let there be a perfect work, that you may be complete and perfected, and in nothing be deficient.⁵ If any of you be deficient in wisdom, let him ask of Aloha, who giveth to all expansively, and upbraideth not, and it is given to him.⁶ But let him ask in faith, not wavering [fn] For he who wavereth is like the waves of the sea which the wind disturbeth. ⁷ And let not that man expect to receive any thing from the Lord,⁸ who is divided in his mind, and disturbed in all his ways.⁹ But let the humble brother glory in his exaltation,¹⁰ and the rich in his humility; for as the flower of an herb, so he passeth.¹¹ For the sun ariseth in his heat, and drieth the herb, and the flower of it falleth, and the beauty of its appearance perisheth; so also the rich withereth in his reverses.¹² Blessed the man who endureth temptations: for when he hath been proved he shall receive the crown of life, which Aloha hath promised unto them who love him.

¹³ Let no man say, when he is tempted, From Aloha I am tempted; for Aloha is not tempted with evils, and he no man tempteth.¹⁴ But each man from his concupiscence tempteth himself, and desireth, and is drawn away.¹⁵ And this desire conceiveth and beareth sin; and sin, when it is perfected, beareth death.¹⁶ Do not err, my beloved brethren;¹⁷ every good gift and perfect from above descendeth, from the Father of lights, with whom is no alteration, nor the shadow of vicissitude.¹⁸ He willed, and begat us by the word of truth, that we might be the first-ones of his creatures.

¹⁹ And you, my beloved brethren, let every one of you be swift to hear, and slow to speak, and slow to be angry;²⁰ for the wrath of man the righteousness of Aloha worketh not.²¹ Wherefore, remove from you all impurity and the abounding of wickedness, and with meekness receive the word which is engrafted in our nature, which is able to save your souls.²² BUT be doers of the word, and not hearers only, neither deceive yourselves.²³ For if a man be a hearer of the word and not a doer of it, this (man) is like one who vieweth his face in a mirror;²⁴ for he seeth himself and passeth, and hath forgotten what (manner of person) he was.²⁵ But every one who looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he is not a hearer of the hearing of forgetfulness, but a doer of works; and this shall be blessed in his work.²⁶ And if a man thinketh that he serveth [fn] Aloha, and holdeth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, of this man his service is vain. ²⁷ 27 For the service [fn] which is pure and true before Aloha the Father, is this, to visit the orphans and widows in their afflictions, and that a man keep himself from the world without blemish.