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James 1:2-18

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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.
7 If you are like that, unable to make up your mind and undecided in all you do, you must not think that you will receive anything from the Lord.
7 That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.
9 Those Christians who are poor must be glad when God lifts them up,
9 Believers in humble circumstances ought to take pride in their high position.
10 and the rich Christians must be glad when God brings them down. For the rich will pass away like the flower of a wild plant.
10 But the rich should take pride in their humiliation—since they will pass away like a wild flower.
11 The sun rises with its blazing heat and burns the plant; its flower falls off, and its beauty is destroyed. In the same way the rich will be destroyed while they go about their business.
11 For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its blossom falls and its beauty is destroyed. In the same way, the rich will fade away even while they go about their business.
12 Happy are those who remain faithful under trials, because when they succeed in passing such a test, they will receive as their reward the life which God has promised to those who love him.
12 Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.
13 If we are tempted by such trials, we must not say, "This temptation comes from God." For God cannot be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.
13 When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone;
14 But we are tempted when we are drawn away and trapped by our own evil desires.
14 but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed.
15 Then our evil desires conceive and give birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
16 Do not be deceived, my dear friends!
16 Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters.
17 Every good gift and every perfect present comes from heaven; it comes down from God, the Creator of the heavenly lights, who does not change or cause darkness by turning.
17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
18 By his own will he brought us into being through the word of truth, so that we should have first place among all his creatures.
18 He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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