My brethren, count it exceeding joy when ye fall into divers temptations,

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, which giveth to all men indifferently and casteth no man in the teeth; and it shall be given him.

Every good gift, and every perfect gift, is from above and cometh down from the father of light, with whom is no variableness, neither is he changed unto darkness.

Pure devotion, and undefiled before God the father, is this: To visit the friendless, and widows in their adversity, and to keep himself unspotted of the world.

And see that ye be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves with sophistry.

Wherefore, dear brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.

Let no man say when he is tempted that he is tempted of God: for God tempteth not unto evil, neither tempteth he any man.

Happy is the man that endureth in temptation, for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

Neither let that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

The sun riseth with heat, and the grass withereth and his flower falleth away, and the beauty of the fashion of it perisheth: even so shall the rich man perish with his abundance.

and the rich in that he is made low. For even as the flower of the grass shall he vanish away.

James, the servant of God, and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sendeth greeting to the twelve tribes which are scattered here and there.

But every man is tempted, drawn away, and enticed of his own concupiscence.

Of his own will begat he us with the word of life, that we should be the first fruits of his creatures.

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness, all superfluity of maliciousness, and receive with meekness the word that is grafted in you, which is able to save your souls:

But let him ask in faith, and waver not. For he that doubteth is like the waves of the sea, tossed of the wind, and carried with violence.

but whoso looketh in the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein - if he be not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work - the same shall be happy in his deed.

If any man among you seem devout, and refrain not his tongue: but deceive his own heart, this man's devotion is in vain.

Then when lust hath conceived, she bringeth forth sin, and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death.

forasmuch as ye know how that the trying of your faith bringeth patience:

For as soon as he hath looked on himself, he goeth his way, and forgetteth immediately what his fashion was:

For if any hear the word, and do it not, he is like unto a man that beholdeth his bodily face in a glass.

and let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and sound, lacking nothing.

Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted,

A wavering minded man is unstable in all his ways.

Err not, my dear brethren.

For the wrath of man worketh not that which is righteous before God.