Ya'akov, a servant of Elohim and of our Master Y'shua the Mashiyach, to the twelve tribes scattered among the peoples: peace.

Let it be all joy to you, my brothers, when you enter into many and various trials.

For you know that the trial of your faith makes you possess patience.

And let patience have its perfect work, so that you may be complete and perfect, and may lack nothing.

And if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask it of Elohim, who gives to all freely and does not reproach; and it will be given to him.

But let him ask in faith, not hesitating: for he who hesitates is like the waves of the sea that the wind agitates.

And let not that man expect to receive anything from Master YHWH,

who is divided in his mind and unstable in all his ways.

But let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation,

and the rich in his humiliation, because like the flower of the grass he passes away.

For the sun rises with its heat and dries up the grass, and its flower falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes: so also the rich man withers in his ways.

Blessed is the man who endures testing, so that when he is proven he will receive the crown of life, which Elohim has promised to those who love him.

Let no one say when he is tempted, I am tempted of Elohim: for Elohim is not tempted with evils, and he tempts no one.

But every person is tempted by his own desire, and he desires and is drawn away.

And this his desire conceives and brings forth sin; and sin, when it is mature, brings forth death.

Do not err, my beloved brothers.

Every good and perfect gift comes down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, not even the shadow of turning.

He willed and gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we might be the firstfruits of his creatures.

And you, my beloved brothers, let every one of you be swift to hear and slow to speak and slow to anger:

for the anger of a man does not work the righteousness of Elohim.

Because of this, remove from you all impurity and the abundance of wickedness, and with meekness receive the word that is planted in our nature, which is able to give life to your souls.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, and do not deceive your souls.

For if a man is a hearer of the word and not a doer of it, he is like one who sees his face in a mirror:

for he sees himself and passes on and forgets what he was like.

But everyone who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues in it is not a hearer of a hearing that is forgotten, but a doer of the deed, and this one will be blessed in his doing.

And if anyone thinks that he serves Elohim and does not hold his tongue, but deceives his heart, this one's service is empty.

For the pure and holy service before Elohim the Father is this: to visit the orphans and widows in their affliction, and that a person keep his soul unspotted from the world.