Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

1 ^[a]James, a ^[b]servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, ^[c]greeting.

² Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold ^[d]temptations; ³ knowing that the proving of your faith worketh ^[e]patience. ⁴ And let ^[f]patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

⁵ But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. ⁶ But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed. ⁷ For let not that man think ^[g]that he shall receive anything of the Lord; ⁸ a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways.

⁹ But let the brother of low degree glory in his high estate: ¹⁰ and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. ¹¹ For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and withereth the grass; and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his goings.

¹² Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them that love him.