Parallel Bible results for "James 1:1-6"

James 1:1-6

1 From James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ: Greetings to all God's people scattered over the whole world.

1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes scattered among the nations: Greetings.

2 My friends, consider yourselves fortunate when all kinds of trials come your way,

2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds,

3 for you know that when your faith succeeds in facing such trials, the result is the ability to endure.

3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.

4 Make sure that your endurance carries you all the way without failing, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.

4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

5 But if any of you lack wisdom, you should pray to God, who will give it to you; because God gives generously and graciously to all.

5 If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.

6 But when you pray, you must believe and not doubt at all. Whoever doubts is like a wave in the sea that is driven and blown about by the wind.

6 But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.