James 1:12-18 - Testing And Tempting
12 happy is he that can stand the tryal: for when he has undergone the test, he shall receive that crown of life which the Lord has promised to those that love him.
13 Let no man under temptation, say, it is God that tempts him; for as he is incapable of moral evil, he can't influence any one thereto. 14 a man is instigated, and drawn into the snare by his own vicious passions, which once indulg'd, are productive of sin, 15 and the genuine offspring of sin is death.
16 Don't be deluded, my brethren; 17 every thing that is valuable, every gift that leads to perfection is deriv'd from heaven, it descends from that original light, which knows no change, no shadow, or decline: 18 'tis he that has voluntarily renew'd us by the oracles of truth, that we might be the first converts of the new creation.