Yaăqôb, a slave of Êlôhîym and of Âdônây Yahusha Mâshı̂yach, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various temptations;
Knowing this, that the testing of your faith works patience.
But let patience have her perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of Êlôhîym, who gives to all men bountifully, and does not reproach; and it shall be given him.
But let him ask in faith, not hesitate. For he that hesitates is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of Âdônây.
A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and the flower thereof falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
Bârak is the man that endures temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which Âdônây has promised to them that love him.
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of Êlôhîym: for Êlôhîym cannot be tempted with evil, neither he tempts he any man:
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own concupiscence, and enticed.
Then when concupiscence has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.
Do not err, my beloved brethren.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Of his own will he begot us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
For the wrath of man does not work the righteousness of Êlôhîym.
Therefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
For if any is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man looking at his natural face in a glass:
For he looks at himself, and goes his way, and straightway forgets what kind of man he was.
But whoever looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues in it, he is not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be bârak in his deed.
If any man among you seem to be pious, and does not control his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's piety is vain.
Pure observance and undefiled before Êlôhîym and the father is this, to visit the orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unblemished from the world.
