1 ² My brothers, whenever you have to face trials of many kinds, count yourselves supremely happy, 1 ³ in the knowledge that such testing of your faith breeds fortitude, 1 ⁴ and if you give fortitude full play you will go on to complete a balanced character that will fall short in nothing.

1 ⁵ If any of you falls short in wisdom, he should ask God for it and it will be given him, for God is a generous giver who neither refuses nor reproaches anyone. 1 ⁶ But he must ask in faith, without a doubt in his mind; for the doubter is like a heaving sea ruffled by the wind. 1 ⁷ A man of that kind must not expect the Lord to give him anything; 1 ⁸ he is double-minded, and never can keep Or: anything; a double-minded man never keeps ... a steady course.