1. James, servant of God and of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes of the dispersion, greetings.
2. My brothers, when you have fallen into various trials, consider everything a joy,
3. knowing that the proving of your faith exercises patience,
4. and patience brings a work to perfection, so that you may be perfect and whole, deficient in nothing.
5. But if anyone among you is in need of wisdom, let him petition God, who gives abundantly to all without reproach, and it shall be given to him.
6. But he should ask with faith, doubting nothing. For he who doubts is like a wave on the ocean, which is moved about by the wind and carried away;