James 1:2-12

Trials, Testing, and Faith

2 Consider [it] all joy, my brothers, whenever you encounter various trials,
3 [because you][a] know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
4 And let endurance have [its] perfect effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking in nothing.
5 Now if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask for [it] from God, who gives to all without reservation and not reproaching, and it will be given to him.
6 But let him ask for [it] in faith, without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed about.
7 For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;
8 [he is] a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
9 Now let the brother of humble circumstances boast in his high position,
10 but the rich person in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a flower of the grass.
11 For the sun rises with its burning heat and dries up the grass, and its flower falls off, and the beauty of its appearance is lost. So also the rich person in his pursuits[b] will wither away.
12 Blessed [is] the person[c] who endures testing, because [when he][d] is approved he will receive the crown of life that he[e] has promised to those who love him.

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Footnotes 5

  • [a]. *Here "[because]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("know") which is understood as causal
  • [b]. Or "on his (business) journeys"; or "in his ways"
  • [c]. Literally "the man," but clearly in a generic sense here meaning "someone, a person"
  • [d]. *Here "[when]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("is") which is understood as temporal
  • [e]. Most manuscripts read "the Lord" here, while others read "God"
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