13. No one who is tested should say, "God is tempting me!" This is because God is not tempted by any form of evil, nor does he tempt anyone.
14. Everyone is tempted by their own cravings; they are lured away and enticed by them.
15. Once those cravings conceive, they give birth to sin; and when sin grows up, it gives birth to death.
16. Don’t be misled, my dear brothers and sisters.
17. Every good gift, every perfect gift, comes from above. These gifts come down from the Father, the creator of the heavenly lights, in whose character there is no change at all.
18. He chose to give us birth by his true word, and here is the result: we are like the first crop from the harvest of everything he created.
19. Know this, my dear brothers and sisters: everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to grow angry.
20. This is because an angry person doesn’t produce God’s righteousness.
21. Therefore, with humility, set aside all moral filth and the growth of wickedness, and welcome the word planted deep inside you—the very word that is able to save you.
22. You must be doers of the word and not only hearers who mislead themselves.
23. Those who hear but don’t do the word are like those who look at their faces in a mirror.
24. They look at themselves, walk away, and immediately forget what they were like.