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James tests the connection between professed faith and daily conduct. Listening, speech, treatment of the poor, wealth and patience all come under scrutiny. Its practical questions resist a faith that sounds convincing but leaves another person’s needs untouched.
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1James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.
2Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,
3knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
4Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
5But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
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