James, of God and of [the] Lord Jesus Christ a servant, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greeting.

All joy do esteem [it], brothers of me, when trials you may fall into various,

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

If now any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask from the [One] giving, God, to all generously, and not finding fault, and it will be given to him.

he should ask however in faith, nothing doubting. The [one] for doubting has been likened to a wave of [the] sea, being blown by the wind and being tossed by the wind.

Not for should suppose the man that, that he will receive anything from the Lord.

[He is] a man double-minded, unstable in all the ways of him.

should boast however the brother of low degree in the exaltation of him;

he who [is] then rich, in the humiliation of him, because like a flower of grass he will pass away.

Has risen for the sun with [its] burning heat and withered the grass, and the flower of it has fallen, and the beauty of the appearance of it has perished. Thus also the rich [man] in the midst of the pursuits of him will fade away.

Blessed [is the] man who endures trial, because approved having been, he will receive the crown of life that He has promised to those loving Him.

No one being tempted should say that, By God I am being tempted. For God unable to be tempted is by evils; tempts now He Himself no one.

A man however is tempted, by the own desire being drawn away and being enticed.

Then desire, having conceived, gives birth to sin; and sin having become fully grown, brings forth death.

Not do be misled, brothers my beloved.

Every act of giving good, and every gift perfect, from above is, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom not there is variation or of shifting shadow.

Having willed [it], He brought forth us by [the] word of truth, for to be us firstfruits a certain of His creatures.

Know [this]! brothers my beloved. should be however every man swift unto to hear, slow unto to speak, slow unto anger;

[the] anger for of man, [the] righteousness of God not works

Therefore, having put aside all filthiness and abounding of wickedness, in humility do receive the implanted word, which is being able to save the souls of you.

do be however doers of [the] word, and not only, hearers deceiving yourselves,

because if anyone a hearer of [the] word is and not a doer, this one has been likened to a man looking at the face the natural of him in a mirror;

he has viewed for himself and has gone away and immediately he has forgotten what like he was.

The [one] however having looked intently into [the] law perfect, that of freedom, and having continued in [it], not a hearer forgetful having been, but a doer of [the] work — this one blessed in the work to be done by him will be.

If anyone seems religious to be, not bridling [the] tongue of him, but deceiving [the] heart of him, of this one worthless [is] the religion.

Religion pure and undefiled before the God and Father this is, to visit orphans and widows in the tribulation of them; unstained oneself to keep from the world.