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James 1:3-10 Good News Bible (GNB)

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

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

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.

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.

7-8. People like that, unable to make up their minds and undecided in all they do, must not think that they will receive anything from the Lord.

9. Those Christians who are poor must be glad when God lifts them up,

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.

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