First Reading: James 1:1-11

¹ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greeting.
² Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials,
³ for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.
⁴ And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
⁵ If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all men generously and without reproaching, and it will be given him.
⁶ But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.
⁷ For that person must not suppose that a double-minded man,
⁸ unstable in all his ways, will receive anything from the Lord.
⁹ Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation,
¹⁰ and the rich in his humiliation, because like the flower of the grass he will pass away.
¹¹ For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.