2Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations;+3knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience.+4And let patience have [its] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.+5But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.+6But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.+7For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord;+8a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways.+9But let the brother of low degree glory in his high estate:+10and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.+11For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and withereth the grass; and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his goings.+12Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which [the Lord] promised to them that love him.+
Good and Perfect Gifts
13Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempteth no man:+14but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.+15Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death.+16Be not deceived, my beloved brethren.+17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither 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 firstfruits of his creatures.+
Hearing and Doing
19Ye know [this], my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:+20for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.+21Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.+22But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves.+23For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror:+24for he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.+25But he that looketh into the perfect law, the [law] of liberty, and [so] continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing.+26If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man’s religion is vain.+27Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep oneself unspotted from the world.+
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