James 1:12-18 - Testing And Tempting

¹² Happy is the man who sustaineth temptation; for being approved he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love Him.

¹³ Let no one that is tempted say, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted by evils, and He tempteth no one. ¹⁴ But every man is tempted, when drawn aside and insnared by his own vehement desire. ¹⁵ Then desire having conceived bringeth forth sin, and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death.

¹⁶ Be not therefore deceived, my beloved brethren: for every good gift, ¹⁷ and every perfect gift, but no evil one, is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation, nor shadow of turning: ¹⁸ who hath of his own will begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures.