James 1:2-11

2Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials,

3knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

4And let endurance have its perfect work, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

5But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all without hesitation and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

6But let him ask in faith, without any doubting—for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.

7For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord—

8he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

9But let the brother in humble circumstances boast in his high position—

10and the rich person in his humble position, because like the flower of the grass he will pass away.

11For the sun arises with a scorching heat and withers the grass, and its flower falls off and the beauty of its appearance is destroyed. So also the rich man in the midst of his pursuits will wither away.