James 1:1-7

¹James, a slave of God and of Sovereign Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes that are in the Dispersion: Greetings.

²Count it all joy, my brothers, whenever you fall into various trials,

³knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance;

⁴but let that endurance have a complete work, so that you may be perfect and complete, falling short in nothing.

⁵But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask from the giving God, who gives to all liberally and does not reproach, and it will be given to him.

⁶However, let him ask in faith, with no doubting, because he who doubts is like a sea wave driven and tossed by the wind—

⁷such a man should not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord,