You must find the greatest joy, my brothers, in being involved in various trials,

And let patience have a perfect work, that ye be perfect and entire, being left behind in nothing.

And let him ask in faith, being at variance in nothing. For he being at variance is like the surge of the sea being moved by the wind and put in motion.

being a double-minded man, unstable and restless in all his ways [in everything he thinks, feels, or decides].

Let him that is poor triumph in the advantages of being a christian.

but one who is rich ought to rejoice at being reduced in circumstances, for the rich will disappear like the wild flowers.

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.

When he is being tempted, let no one say, "It is God who tempts me," for God cannot be tempted with evil, nor does he tempt any man.

and each one is tempted, by his own desires being led away and enticed,

then the desire taking effect produces sin, and sin being finished brings forth death.

You must avoid being misled, my dearly loved brothers.

Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.

For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation.

Keep on being obedient to the word, and not merely being hearers who deceive themselves.

For if anyone only listens to the word without obeying it, he is like a man who looks very carefully at his natural face in a mirror;

But he who looks into the perfect Law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

So speak and so do, as being about to be judged by the law of liberty.

Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

lo, also the ships, being so great, and by fierce winds being driven, are led about by a very small helm, whithersoever the impulse of the helmsman doth counsel,

And the tongue [is] a fire! The world of unrighteousness, the tongue, is set among our members, defiling the whole body and setting on fire {the course of human existence}, being set on fire by hell.

For all kinds of animals, and birds, of reptiles and sea creatures, are being tamed and have been tamed by mankind.

but no human being can tame the tongue. It is an irreconcilable evil, full of deadly poison.

Therewith, are we blessing our Lord and Father, and, therewith, we are cursing the men who, after the likeness of God, have been brought into being!

But if you cherish bitter jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, stop being proud of it and stop being false to the standard of truth.

And the fruit of righteousness is being sown in peace by those who are working peace.

or you pray and yet do not receive, because you pray wrongly, your object being to waste what you get on some pleasure or another.

You adulteresses [disloyal sinners—flirting with the world and breaking your vow to God]! Do you not know that being the world’s friend [that is, loving the things of the world] is being God’s enemy? So whoever chooses to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Behold, the hire of the laborers reaping your fields cry out, being kept back by you. And the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

Stop muttering against one another, brothers, so as to keep from being judged yourselves. Look! The Judge is standing at the very door.

And the prayer of faith shall save him being sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he should have wrought sins, it shall be remitted to him.

Acknowledge your faults to one another, and pray for one another, that ye might be healed. The prayer of the just, being energetic, is very powerful.

Elijah was a human being with the same nature as us, and {he prayed fervently} for [it] not to rain, and it did not rain on the land [for] three years and six months.