1:3Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
1:4But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
1:5If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
1:6But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
1:7For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
1:8A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
1:9Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
1:10But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
1:11For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
1:12Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
1:13Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: