²Consider it all joy, my brothers, whenever you encounter various trials, ³because you^* know that the testing of your faith produces endurance. ⁴And let endurance have its perfect effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking in nothing.

⁵Now if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask for it from God, who gives to all without reservation and not reproaching, and it will be given to him. ⁶But let him ask for it in faith, without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed about. ⁷For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; ⁸he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

⁹Now let the brother of humble circumstances boast in his high position, ¹⁰but the rich person in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a flower of the grass. ¹¹For the sun rises with its burning heat and dries up the grass, and its flower falls off, and the beauty of its appearance is lost. So also the rich person in his pursuits^a will wither away.

¹²Blessed is the person^b who endures testing, because when he^* is approved he will receive the crown of life that he^c has promised to those who love him.

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James 1:12: Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.

Footnotes

*Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“know”) which is understood as causal
aOr “on his (business) journeys”; or “in his ways”
bLiterally “the man,” but clearly in a generic sense here meaning “someone, a person”
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“is”) which is understood as temporal
cMost manuscripts read “the Lord” here, while others read “God”