James 1-17 (KJV)
[1] James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,
to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
[2] My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall
into divers temptations;
[3] Knowing this, that the trying of your faith
worketh patience
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[4] But let patience have her perfect work, that ye
may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
[5] If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that
giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not;
and it shall be given him.
[6] But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.
For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea
driven with the wind and tossed.
[7] For let not that man think that he shall
receive any thing of the Lord.
[8] A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
[9] Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that
he is exalted:
[10] But the rich, in that he is made low:
because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
[11] For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat,
but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof
falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth:
so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
[12] Blessed is the man that endureth temptation:
for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown
of life, which the Lord hath promised to them
that love him.
[13] Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted
of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil,
neither tempteth he any man:
[14] But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of
his own lust, and enticed.
[15] Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth
forth sin: and sin, when it is finished,
bringeth forth death.
[16] Do not err, my beloved brethren.
[17] Every good gift and every perfect gift is
from above, and cometh down from the Father
of lights, with whom is no variableness,
neither shadow of turning.
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