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Rejoice in Trials

Consider it all joy, my brethren,[a] when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect work, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God,[b] who gives to all without hesitation and without reproach; and it will be given to him. But 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. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord— he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

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Footnotes

  1. James 1:2 Or brethren (Grk. adelphoi); brothers, often an audience of males and females.
  2. James 1:5 cf. 1 Kings 3:9-12; Prov. 2:3-6.