1Verse 1James, a slave of God and of Sovereign Jesus Christ,+to the twelve tribes+that are in the Dispersion:+Greetings.Verse 2Count it all joy,+my brothers, whenever you fall into various trials,Verse 3knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance;Verse 4but let that endurance have a complete work,+so that you may be perfect and complete, falling short in nothing.
About wisdom
Verse 5But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask from the giving God,+who gives to all liberally and does not reproach, and it will be given to him.Verse 6However, let him ask in faith, with no doubting, because he who doubts is like a sea wave driven and tossed by the wind—Verse 7such a man should not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord,Verse 8being a double-minded man,+unstable in all his ways.Verse 9Now the lowly brother should glory in his high position,+Verse 10but the rich brother in his humiliation,+because he will pass away like a flower of wild grass.+Verse 11For the sun rises with its burning heat and withers the grass, and its flower falls off and the beauty of its face perishes. Just so the rich man will be withered in his undertakings.+
About testings
Verse 12A man who endures testing is blessed, because upon becoming approved+he will receive the crown of the life that the Lord+has promised to those loving Him.+Verse 13Let no one, upon being tempted,+say, “I am being tempted by God,” because God is untemptable by evil, so He Himself does not tempt anyone.Verse 14But each one is tempted by his own craving, being taken in tow and enticed.Verse 15Then the craving, upon conceiving, gives birth to sin, and the sin, upon completion, delivers death.Verse 16Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers:Verse 17every good giving and every perfect gift is from Above,+coming down from the Father of the lights,+with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.Verse 18Having willed it, He brought us forth by a word of truth,+so that we might be a sort of firstfruits of His products.+Verse 19So then,+my beloved brothers, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;Verse 20because a man's anger does not achieve God's righteousness.+
About obeying the Word
Verse 21Therefore, laying aside all filthiness and overflow of evil,+receive with meekness the implanted Word which is able to save your souls.+Verse 22Further, become word doers and not just hearers, deceiving yourselves.Verse 23Because if anyone is a law+hearer and not a doer, the same is like a man observing his physical face in a mirror;Verse 24for he observes himself, then goes away and promptly forgets what he is like.Verse 25But he who looks carefully into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it,+he—not being a forgetful hearer but a work doer—he will be blessed in what he does.+Verse 26If anyone among you thinks he is religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his heart, his religion is useless.+Verse 27Pure and undefiled religion before God and Father+is this: to care for orphans and widows in their adversity;+to keep oneself unspotted from the world.+