James 1:2-8
New Testament for Everyone
2 My dear family, when you find yourselves tumbling into various trials and tribulations, learn to look at it with total joy, 3 because you know that, when your faith is put to the test, what comes out is patience. 4 What’s more, you must let patience have its complete effect, so that you may be complete and whole, not falling short in anything.
5 If any one of you falls short in wisdom, they should ask God for it, and it will be given them. God, after all, gives generously and ungrudgingly to all people. 6 But they should ask in faith, with no doubts. A person who doubts is like a wave of the sea which the wind blows and tosses about. 7 Someone like that should not suppose they will receive anything from the Lord, 8 since they are double-minded and unstable in everything they do.
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James 1:16-18
New Testament for Everyone
16 Don’t be deceived, my dear family. 17 Every good gift, every perfect gift, comes down from above, from the father of lights. His steady light doesn’t vary. It doesn’t change and produce shadows. 18 He became our father by the word of truth; that was his firm decision, and the result is that we are a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
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