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 will wither away.
12. Blessed is the person who endures testing, because when he is approved he will receive the crown of life that he has promised to those who love him.
13. No one who is being tempted should say, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.
14. But each one is tempted when he is dragged away and enticed by his own desires.
15. Then desire, after it has conceived, gives birth to sin, and sin, when it is brought to completion, gives birth to death.
16. Do not be deceived, my dear brothers.
17. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of change.
18. By his will he gave birth to us through the message of truth, so that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
19. Understand this, my dear brothers: every person must be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,
20. for human anger does not accomplish the righteousness of God.
21. Therefore, putting aside all moral uncleanness and wicked excess, welcome with humility the implanted message which is able to save your souls.
22. But be doers of the message and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,