James:1:2-18

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* Count it all joy , my brethren , when ye fall into various temptations , * knowing that the proving of your faith works endurance . * But let endurance have [its ] perfect work , that ye may be perfect and complete , lacking in nothing . * But 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 : * but 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 ; * for let not that man think that he shall receive anything from the Lord ; * [he is ] a double-minded man , unstable in all his ways . * But let the brother of low degree glory in his elevation , * and the rich in his humiliation , because as [the ] grass 's flower he will pass away . * For 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 . * Blessed [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 . * Let no man , being tempted , say , I am tempted of God . For God cannot be tempted by evil things , and himself tempts no one . * But every one is tempted , drawn away , and enticed by his own lust ; * then lust , having conceived , gives birth to sin ; but sin fully completed brings forth death . * Do not err , my beloved brethren . * Every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from above , from the Father of lights , with whom is no variation nor shadow of turning . * According to his own will begat he us by the word of truth , that we should be a certain first-fruits of his creatures .

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