James:1:2-18

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* My brethren , count it all joy , when you fall into diverse trials ; * knowing that the proof of your faith works out patience . * Let patience , therefore , have a perfect effect , that you may be perfect and complete , deficient in nothing . * If any of you be deficient in wisdom , let him ask it of God : who gives to all men liberally , and upbraids not , and it shall be given to him . * But let him ask in faith , being not at all irresolute : for he who is irresolute , is like a wave of the sea , driven by the wind and tossed . * Now let not that man think , that he shall receive anything from the Lord . * A man of two minds , is unstable in all his ways . * Moreover , let the brother of humble condition glory in his exaltation , * and the rich in his humiliation ; for as a garden flower he shall pass away .- * For the sun rises with a burning heat , and withers the herb , and its flower falls down , and the beauty of its appearance perishes : so also shall the rich man fade in his ways . * Blessed is the man who sustains trial , for becoming an approved person , he shall receive the crown of life , which the Lord has promised to them who love him . * Let no one who is tempted say , Certainly I am tempted by God : for God is incapable of being tempted by evil things , and he tempts no one . * But every one is tempted , when he is drawn away , and enticed by his own lust : * then lust having conceived , brings forth sin , and sin , being perfected , brings forth death . * Be not deceived , my beloved brethren ; * every good gift , and every perfect gift , is from above , descended from the Father of lights , with whom there is no variableness , nor shadow of turning . * Of his own will , he begot us by the word of truth , that we should be a kind of fruits of his creatures .

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