Joy that learns endurance

Trials Tested Faith Endures · James 1

Story guide: Dispersed believers help a fallen traveler on a rain-lashed stone causeway at dawn. Believers steady one another on a storm-tossed road as endurance takes shape.

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1James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: greetings.

2Consider it all joy, my brothers, whenever you fall into various trials,

3because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

4And let endurance have its perfect work, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking in nothing.

5But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

6But let him ask in faith, doubting nothing, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed about.

7For that man must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord,

8a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

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