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¹ James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the Dispersion, greeting:

² My brothers count it all joy when you fall into various trials,³ knowing that the proving of your faith works patience.⁴ But let patience have its perfective work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.⁵ But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask from God, who gives to all freely and with no reproach, and it will be given to him.⁶ But let him ask in faith, doubting nothing. For the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, being driven by wind and being tossed;⁷ for do not let that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;⁸ he is a double-souled man, not dependable in all his ways.⁹ But let the lowly brother rejoice in his lifting up;¹⁰ and the rich one rejoice in his humiliation, because he will pass away like the flower of the grass.¹¹ For the sun rose with the hot wind and dried up the grass, and its flower fell out, and the beauty of its appearance perished; so also the rich one will fade away in his ways. Isa. 40:6, 7 ¹² Blessed is the man who endures temptation, because having been approved he will receive the crown of life which the Lord promised to the ones loving Him.

¹³ Let no one being tempted say, I am tempted from God. For God is not tempted by evil, and He tempts no one.¹⁴ But each one is tempted by his own lusts, being drawn out and being seduced by them .¹⁵ Then having conceived lust brings forth sin. And sin being fully formed brings forth death.¹⁶ Do not go astray, my beloved brothers,¹⁷ every act of good giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom is no change or shadow of turning.¹⁸ Having purposed, He brought us forth by the Word of truth, for us to be a certain firstfruit of His creatures.

¹⁹ So that, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.²⁰ For the wrath of man does not work out the righteousness of God.²¹ On account of this, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of evil, in meekness receive the implanted Word being able to save your souls.²² But become doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.²³ Because if anyone is a hearer of the Word, and not a doer, this one is like a man studying his natural face in a mirror;²⁴ for he studied himself, and has gone away, and immediately he forgot of what kind he was.²⁵ But the one looking into the perfect Law of liberty, and continuing in it , this one not having become a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in his doing.²⁶ If anyone thinks to be religious among you, yet not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, this one's religion is vain.²⁷ Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their afflictions, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.