1. James the servant of God, and of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
2. My brethren, count it all joy, when you shall fall into divers temptations;
3. Knowing that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
4. And patience hath a perfect work; that you may be perfect and entire, failing in nothing.
5. But if any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men abundantly, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
6. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, which is moved and carried about by the wind.
7. Therefore let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
8. A double minded man is inconstant in all his ways.
9. But let the brother of low condition glory in his exaltation:
10. And the rich, in his being low; because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away.