James 1:2-12

2My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into various temptations;1 3Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 4But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. 5If any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given to him. 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. 7For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing from the Lord. 8A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. 9Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:2 10But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. 11For the sun hath no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and its flower falleth, and the grace of its fashion perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways. 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.