You must find the greatest joy, my brothers, in being involved in various trials,

And let patience have a perfect work, that ye be perfect and entire, being left behind in nothing.

And let him ask in faith, being at variance in nothing. For he being at variance is like the surge of the sea being moved by the wind and put in motion.

being a double-minded man, unstable and restless in all his ways [in everything he thinks, feels, or decides].

But the person [who must live] in humble circumstances should be happy over being lifted up [spiritually by God].

and the rich man is to glory in being humbled [by trials revealing human frailty, knowing true riches are found in the grace of God], for like the flower of the grass he will pass away.

Happy is the man who endures temptation: because, being proved, he will receive a crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him with divine love.

Let no man, being tempted, say, I am tempted of God. For God cannot be tempted by evil things, and himself tempts no one.

and each one is tempted, by his own desires being led away and enticed,

then the desire taking effect produces sin, and sin being finished brings forth death.

You must avoid being misled, my dearly loved brothers.

having counselled, He did beget us with a word of truth, for our being a certain first-fruit of His creatures.

For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation.

Keep on being obedient to the word, and not merely being hearers who deceive themselves.

For if anyone only listens to the word without obeying it, he is like a man who looks very carefully at his natural face in a mirror;

But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

So speak and so do, as being about to be judged by the law of liberty.

Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

lo, also the ships, being so great, and by fierce winds being driven, are led about by a very small helm, whithersoever the impulse of the helmsman doth counsel,

And the tongue is [in a sense] a fire, the very world of injustice and unrighteousness; the tongue is set among our members as that which contaminates the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life [the cycle of man’s existence], and is itself set on fire by hell (Gehenna).

For every species of animals and birds, of reptiles and sea creatures, is being tamed and has been tamed by the human species,

but no human being is able to tame the tongue. [It is] a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

Therewith, are we blessing our Lord and Father, and, therewith, we are cursing the men who, after the likeness of God, have been brought into being!

But if you cherish bitter jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, stop being proud of it and stop being false to the standard of truth.

And the fruit of righteousness is being sown in peace by those who are working peace.

or you pray and yet do not receive, because you pray wrongly, your object being to waste what you get on some pleasure or another.

You adulteresses [disloyal sinners—flirting with the world and breaking your vow to God]! Do you not know that being the world’s friend [that is, loving the things of the world] is being God’s enemy? So whoever chooses to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Behold, the hire of the laborers reaping your fields cry out, being kept back by you. And the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter rain.

Stop muttering against one another, brothers, so as to keep from being judged yourselves. Look! The Judge is standing at the very door.

And the prayer of faith shall save him being sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he should have wrought sins, it shall be remitted to him.

Acknowledge your faults to one another, and pray for one another, that ye might be healed. The prayer of the just, being energetic, is very powerful.

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours [with the same physical, mental, and spiritual limitations and shortcomings], and he prayed intensely for it not to rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.