Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

1 James, bondman of God and of [the] Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which [are] in the dispersion, greeting.

² Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various temptations,

³ knowing that the proving of your faith works endurance.

⁴ But let endurance have [its] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

⁵ But if any one of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all freely and reproaches not, and it shall be given to him:

⁶ but let him ask in faith, nothing doubting. For he that doubts is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed about;

⁷ for let not that man think that he shall receive anything from the Lord;

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

⁹ But let the brother of low degree glory in his elevation,

¹⁰ and the rich in his humiliation, because as [the] grass's flower he will pass away.

¹¹ For the sun has risen with its burning heat, and has withered the grass, and its flower has fallen, and the comeliness of its look has perished: thus the rich also shall wither in his goings.

¹² Blessed [is the] man who endures temptation; for, having been proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which He has promised to them that love him.