1James, a servant of God and of the Lord Yeshua Messiah, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greeting. 2Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations; 3knowing that the proving of your faith works patience. 4And let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing. 5But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and does not reproach; and it shall be given him. 6But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he who doubts is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed. 7For let not that man think that he shall receive anything from the Lord; 8a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways. 9But let the brother of low degree glory in his high estate: 10and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. 11For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass; and its flower falls, and the grace of its appearance perishes: so also shall the rich man fade away in his goings. 12Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him. 13Let no one say when he is tempted, I am tempted by God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one: 14but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. 15Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, brings forth death. 16Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. 17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there can be no variation, nor shadow that is cast by turning. 18Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. 19You know this, my beloved brothers. But let everyone be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 20for the wrath of man does not work the righteousness of God. 21Therefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. 22But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves. 23For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a mirror: 24for he beholds himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what manner of man he was. 25But he who looks into the perfect Torah, the Torah of liberty, and so continues, being not a hearer who forgets but a doer who works, this man shall be blessed in his doing. 26If anyone thinks himself to be religious, while he does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is vain. 27Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.