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² Let it be all joy to you, my brethren, when ye enter into many and various trials.³ For ye know, that the trial of [fn] faith, maketh you possess patience. ⁴ And let patience have its perfect work, so that ye may be complete and perfect, and may lack nothing.⁵ And if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask [fn] of God, who giveth to all freely, and reproacheth not; and it will be given him. ⁶ But let him ask in faith, not hesitating: he who hesitateth is like the waves of the sea, which the wind agitateth.⁷ And let not that man expect to receive any thing of the Lord,⁸ who is hesitating in his mind, and unstable in all his ways.⁹ And let the depressed brother rejoice, in his elevation;¹⁰ and the rich, in his depression; because, like the flower of an herb, so he passeth away.¹¹ For the sun riseth in its heat, and drieth up the herb; and its flower falleth, and the beauty of its appearance perisheth: so also the rich man withereth in his ways.¹² Blessed is the man who endureth temptations; so that when he is proved he may receive a crown of life, which God hath promised to them that love him.

¹³ Let no one when he is tempted, say, I am tempted of God: for God is not tempted with evils, nor doth he tempt any man.¹⁴ But every man is tempted by his own lust; and he lusteth, and is drawn away.¹⁵ And this [fn] lust conceiveth, and bringeth forth sin; and sin, when mature, bringeth forth death. ¹⁶ Do not err, my beloved brethren.¹⁷ Every good and perfect gift cometh down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom is no mutation, not even the shadow of change.¹⁸ He saw fit, and begat us by the word of truth; that we might be the first-fruits of his creatures.

¹⁹ And be ye, my beloved brethren, every one of you, swift to hear, and slow to speak; and slow to wrath:²⁰ for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.²¹ Wherefore, remove far from you all impurity, and the abundance of wickedness; and, with meekness, receive the word that is implanted in our nature, which is able to vivify these your souls.²² But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only; and do not deceive yourselves.²³ For if any man shall be a hearer of the word, and not a doer of it, he will be like one who seeth his face in a mirror:²⁴ for he seeth himself, and passeth on, and forgetteth what a man he was.²⁵ But every one that looketh upon the perfect law of liberty and abideth in it, is not a hearer of something to be forgotten, but a doer of the things; and he will be blessed in his work.²⁶ And if any one thinketh that he worshippeth God, and doth not restrain his tongue, but his heart deceiveth him; his worship is vain.²⁷ For the worship that is pure and holy before God the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and that one keep himself unspotted from the world.