James 1:12-18 - Testing And Tempting
12 Blessed is the man who patiently supports temptation: for when he is proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to those who love him.
13 Let no man under temptation say, I am tempted of God: for God is incapable of temptation from evils, and he tempteth no man: 14 but every person is tempted, when by his own peculiar passion he is born away, and ensnared. 15 Then passion impregnated, bringeth forth sin, and sin reaching its consummation, bringeth forth death.
16 Be not deceived, my beloved brethren. 17 Every good gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, descending from the father of illuminations, with whom there is no variableness, nor shadow of change. 18 Of his own choice he produced us by the word of truth, that we might be a sort of first fruit of his creatures.??19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.