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Trials, Wisdom, and the Source of Good Gifts

James 1:1-18

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Chapter 1
1 James, a servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: greetings. 2 Consider it all joy, my brothers, whenever you fall into various temptations. 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4 But let endurance have its perfect work, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. 5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all generously and without reproaching, and it will be given to him. 6 But let him ask in faith, doubting nothing. For the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, wind-driven and tossed. 7 For let not that man, the doubter, suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord. 8 a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. 9 But let the humble brother boast in his height. 10 But the rich person in his humiliation, because as a flower of grass he will pass away. 11 For the sun rose with the scorching heat and dried up the grass, and its flower fell off and the beauty of its face perished; so also the rich man will fade in his ways. 12 Blessed is the man who endures temptation, because having become approved he will receive the crown of life, which he promised to those who love him. 13 Let no one who is being tempted say, "I am tempted by God," for God is untemptable by evils, but he himself tempts no one. 14 But each person is tempted when he is dragged away and enticed by his own desire. 15 Then desire, when it has conceived, gives birth to sin; but sin, when it is fully grown, gives birth to death. 16 Do not be led astray, my beloved brothers. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. 18 He willed it and begot us by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of firstfruits of his creations.