Consider it a great joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you experience various trials,
And let endurance have its full effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.
Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God — who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly — and it will be given to him.
but let the rich boast in his humiliation because he will pass away like a flower of the field.
For the sun rises and, together with the scorching wind, dries up the grass; its flower falls off, and its beautiful appearance perishes. In the same way, the rich person will wither away while pursuing his activities.
No one undergoing a trial should say, “I am being tempted by God,” since God is not tempted by evil, and he himself doesn’t tempt anyone.
But each person is tempted when he is drawn away and enticed by his own evil desire.
Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death.
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
By his own choice, he gave us birth by the word of truth so that we would be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
My dear brothers and sisters, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
For he looks at himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of person he was.
But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer who works — this person will be blessed in what he does.
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