Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Endure Your Trials With Joy, Asking God For Wisdom And Viewing Life From His Standpoint

² Regard it all joy, my brothers, whenever you fall-into^[a] various trials, ³ knowing that the testing of your faith is producing endurance. ⁴ And let endurance be having its complete^[b] work in order that you may be complete and whole, lacking in nothing. ⁵ And if any of you is lacking wisdom, let him be asking from the God giving generously to all and not reproaching^[c], and it will be given to him. ⁶ But let him be asking in faith, not doubting^[d] at all. For the one doubting is like a surge of the sea being blown-by-wind and tossed. ⁷ For let that person not be supposing that he will receive anything from the Lord— ⁸ a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. ⁹ And let the lowly^[e] brother be boasting in his height, ¹⁰ and the rich one in his lowliness, because he will pass-away like a flower of grass. ¹¹ For the sun rose with the burning-heat and dried-up the grass, and its flower fell-off and the beauty of its appearance perished. In this manner also the rich one will fade-away in his pursuits.