11. For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and its flower falls, and the beautiful appearance of it perishes: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
12. Blessed is the man that patiently endures temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those that love him.
13. Let no one say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither does he tempt anyone:
14. But each one is tempted, when they are drawn away of their own lust and enticed.
15. Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin; and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.
16. Do not err, my beloved brethren.
17. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness neither shadow of turning.
18. He, of his own will, has begotten us with the word of truth, that we should be the firstfruits of his creatures.
19. Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;
20. for the wrath of man does not work the righteousness of God.