Chapter One

2 My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into different kinds of temptations,
3 knowing that the trying of your faith works patience.
4 But let patience have its perfect work, so that you may be perfect and entire, lacking nothing.
5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and with no reproach, and it shall be given to him.
6 But let him ask in faith, doubting nothing. For he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
7 For do not let that man think that he shall receive anything from the Lord;
8 he is a double-minded man, not dependable in all his ways.

Verse one is: James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the Dispersion, greeting: