James 1

¹Iames a seruant of God, and of the Lord Iesus Christ, to the twelue Tribes, which are scattered abroade, salutation.

²My brethren, count it exceeding ioy, when ye fall into diuers tentations,

³Knowing that ye trying of your faith bringeth forth patience,

⁴And let patience haue her perfect worke, that ye may be perfect and entier, lacking nothing.

⁵If any of you lacke wisedome, let him aske of God, which giueth to all men liberally, and reprocheth no man, and it shalbe giuen him.

⁶But let him aske in faith, and wauer not: for hee that wauereth, is like a waue of the sea, tost of the winde, and caried away.

⁷Neither let that man thinke that hee shall receiue any thing of the Lord.

⁸A double minded man is vnstable in all his waies.

⁹Let the brother of lowe degree reioyce in that he is exalted:

¹⁰Againe hee that is rich, in that hee is made lowe: for as the flower of the grasse, shall he vanish away.

¹¹For as when the sunne riseth with heate, then the grasse withereth, and his flower falleth away, and the goodly shape of it perisheth: euen so shall the rich man wither away in all his waies.

¹²Blessed is ye man, that endureth tentation: for when he is tried, hee shall receiue the crowne of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that loue him.

¹³Let no man say when hee is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God can not bee tempted with euill, neither tempteth he any man.