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¹ James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greetings.

² Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into manifold temptations;³ Knowing that the proving of your faith works patience.⁴ And let patience have [its] perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.⁵ But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and does not upbraid; and it shall be given him.⁶ But let him ask in faith, doubting nothing: for he that doubts is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.⁷ For do not let that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord;⁸ a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.⁹ But let the brother of low degree glory in his high estate:¹⁰ and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.¹¹ For the sun rises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass: and the flower thereof falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes: so also shall the rich man fade away in his goings.¹² Blessed is the man that endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which [the Lord] promised to those that love him.

¹³ Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God can't be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no man:¹⁴ but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own desire, and enticed.¹⁵ Then the desire, when it has conceived, bears sin: and the sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.¹⁶ Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.¹⁷ Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning.¹⁸ Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

¹⁹ You know [this], my beloved brothers. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:²⁰ for the wrath of man does not work the righteousness of God.²¹ Therefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.²² But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves.²³ For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror:²⁴ for he looks at himself, and goes away, and right away forgets what manner of man he was.²⁵ But he that looks into the perfect law, the [law] of liberty, and [so] continues, not being a hearer that forgets but a doer that works, this man shall be blessed in his doing.²⁶ If any man thinks himself to be religious, while he doesn't bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this man's religion is vain.²⁷ Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep oneself unspotted from the world.