My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

because he is double-minded and undecided in all that he does [i.e., he cannot make up his mind and follow through about anything].

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

for he did view himself, and hath gone away, and immediately he did forget of what kind he was;

What good does it do, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith but does not prove it with actions? This kind of faith cannot save him, can it?

For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:

A spring cannot pour both fresh and brackish water from the same opening, can it?

My brothers, a fig tree cannot produce olives, nor a grapevine figs, can it? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.

That kind of wisdom does not come from above. No, it is worldly, self-centered, and demonic.

For where envy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every kind of evil.

The wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceful, courteous, not self-willed, full of compassion and kind actions, free from favouritism and from all insincerity.

What causes wars and quarrels among you? Is it not your different desires which are ever at war within your bodies? You desire things and cannot have them, and so you commit murder.

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

and yet cannot tell what shall happen tomorrow. For what thing is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.