Count it all joy, my brothers, when you encounter various trials.

If any of you lacks wisdom let him ask of God. He gives to all generously and without reproach and it will be given to him.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above. It comes down from the Father of lights (truth and spiritual purity), with whom there is no variation. He does not change like shifting shadows.

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for the fatherless persons and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself without spot from the world.

Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, who deceive themselves.

You know this, my beloved brothers. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger.

Let no man say when he is tempted: God tempts me. God cannot be tempted with evil, and he tempts (entices) (tests) (trys) no one.

The man who endures under trial is blessed. For when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life that God promised to those who love him.

Do not let that man think that he will receive anything from God.

The sun rises with scorching heat and withers the grass. The flower falls off and its beauty perishes. So also the rich man will fade away in his pursuits.

But the rich must be glad when God humbles them. This is because they will wither like wildflowers and pass away.

This letter is from James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. Greetings to the twelve tribes that are scattered.

Each man is tempted when he is drawn away by his evil desire (lust). He is enticed (allured).

Using his own will, he gave us birth through the word of truth. This way we would be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

Therefore get rid of all filthiness and wickedness. Receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save you.

However he must ask in faith, not doubting: for he who doubts is like a surging wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.

But he who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and so continues, being not a hearer who forgets but a doer who works, this man will be blessed in what he does.

If any man thinks he is religious, while he does not control his tongue but deceives his heart, this man's religion is vain (worthless) (useless).

Then evil desires, when conceived, give birth to sin: and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

Know that the testing of your faith produces patience (endurance).

He sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what manner of man he was.

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror.

Let patience have its perfect work, that you may be mature, complete, and lacking in nothing.

Let the brother of humble circumstances glory in his high position (exaltation).

A double-minded man is unstable (inconsistent) in all his ways.

Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.

The anger of man does not promote the righteousness of God.