1James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greetings. 2Count it all joy, my brothers, when you{+} fall into manifold trials; 3Knowing that the proving of your{+} faith works patience. 4And let patience have [its] perfect work, that you{+} may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing. 5But if any of you{+} lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and does not upbraid; and it will be given him. 6But let him ask in faith, doubting nothing: for he who doubts is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed. 7For do not let that man think that he will receive anything of the Lord; 8a man who leads a double life, unstable in all his ways. 9But let the brother who is lowly glory in his high [position]; 10and the rich, in his low [position]: because as the flower of the grass he will pass away. 11For the sun rises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass: and its flower falls, and the grace of its fashion perishes: so also will the rich man fade away in his ventures. 12Blessed is the man who endures trial; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which [the Lord] promised to those who love him. 13Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God can't be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no man: 14but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own desire, and enticed. 15Then the desire, when it has conceived, bears sin: and the sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death. 16Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers. 17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights [of heaven]; with whom there is neither shift in position, nor shadow that is cast by turning. 18Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. 19You{+} know [this], my beloved brothers. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 20for the wrath of man does not work the righteousness of God. 21Therefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your{+} souls. 22But be{+} doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your{+} own selves. 23For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror: 24for he looks at himself, and goes away, and right away forgets what manner of man he was. 25But he who looks into the perfect law, the [law] of liberty, and stays [with it], not being a hearer that forgets but a doer that works, this man will be blessed in his doing. 26If any man thinks himself to be religious, while he doesn't bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this man's religion is useless. 27Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep oneself unspotted from the world.