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James 1

¹James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ to the twelve tribes in the diaspora, Greetings!

²Count it all joy, my brothers and sisters, when you encounter various types of tests, ³knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. ⁴Now let patience have its complete work, so that you might be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. ⁵But if anyone lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives liberally to everyone and does not reproach, and it will be given to him. ⁶But let him ask with faithfulness [or - in faith] without doubting. For the one who doubts is like a wind blowing over the sea, blown and tossed about. ⁷Such a man should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. ⁸He is divided in mind, unstable in all his ways.

⁹Let the humble brothers and sisters boast that they have been raised up, ¹⁰but let the rich boast in their humility, because like the flower in the field, those with riches will pass away. ¹¹Because the sun rises with its blazing heat, and dries of the field of grass. Its flower falls and its surface beauty is destroyed. In the same way will the rich wither away as they go about their business.

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