James 1:2–18

²All joy count it, my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold; ³knowing that the proof of your faith doth work endurance, ⁴and let the endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire—in nothing lacking; ⁵and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him; ⁶and let him ask in faith, nothing doubting, for he who is doubting hath been like a wave of the sea, driven by wind and tossed, ⁷for let not that man suppose that he shall receive anything from the Lord— ⁸a two-souled man is unstable in all his ways. ⁹And let the brother who is low rejoice in his exaltation, ¹⁰and the rich in his becoming low, because as a flower of grass he shall pass away; ¹¹for the sun did rise with the burning heat, and did wither the grass, and the flower of it fell, and the grace of its appearance did perish, so also the rich in his way shall fade away! ¹²Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.

¹³Let no one say, being tempted—‘From God I am tempted,’ for God is not tempted of evil, and Himself doth tempt no one, ¹⁴and each one is tempted, by his own desires being led away and enticed, ¹⁵afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to sin, and the sin having been perfected, doth bring forth death. ¹⁶Be not led astray, my brethren beloved; ¹⁷every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning; ¹⁸having counselled, He did beget us with a word of truth, for our being a certain first-fruit of His creatures.