James 1:1–12

¹James, bondman of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the dispersion, greeting.

²Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various temptations, ³knowing that the proving of your faith works endurance. ⁴But let endurance have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. ⁵But if any one of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all freely and reproaches not, and it shall be given to him: ⁶but let him ask in faith, nothing doubting. For he that doubts is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed about; ⁷for let not that man think that he shall receive anything from the Lord; ⁸he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. ⁹But let the brother of low degree glory in his elevation, ¹⁰and the rich in his humiliation, because as the grass’s flower he will pass away. ¹¹For the sun has risen with its burning heat, and has withered the grass, and its flower has fallen, and the comeliness of its look has perished: thus the rich also shall wither in his goings. ¹²Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for, having been proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which He has promised to them that love him.