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.

and the rich brother rejoice in his being on a level with the poor, because the rich will fade away like the flower of the grass.

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.

But each man is tempted by his own lust, being drawn away and enticed.

Then the lust having conceived, it gives birth to sin, and after being complete the sin 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.

Don't delusively content your selves with being of the audience, but put what you hear in practice:

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 that looketh into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and'so continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing.

but if ye have respect of persons, ye 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.

Behold also the ships, being so great and driven by fierce winds, are guided about by a very small rudder, wherever the impulse of the man who steers determines.

And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus, the tongue is made to lead among our body-parts, defiling the whole body, and setting the cycle of nature on fire, and being set on fire by hell.

For every species of animals and birds, of reptiles and sea creatures, is being tamed and has been tamed by the human species,

but the tongue no human being can tame. It is an evil incapable of being quieted, 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, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter 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 man with a nature like ours [with the same physical, mental, and spiritual limitations and shortcomings], and he prayed intensely for it not to rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.