James.
1.
 I, James, am a servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ.  I am writing this letter to  all the Jewish people  who trust in Christ (OR, to all God’s people) who are scattered throughout the world.  I send my greetings to  you all. 
My fellow believers, rejoice greatly,  even when you experience various kinds of difficulties/troubles. 
 God sometimes allows you to experience difficulties in order to test whether or not you will continue to trust  him. Whenever that happens, you need to realize more and more that  if you continue to trust him, you will be able to bravely/patiently endure difficulties. 
Keep on enduring difficulties bravely/patiently by trusting God more and more firmly PRS, in order that you may become all that he intends you to be DOU (OR, spiritually mature and complete), not lacking ◄any  good quality/anything you need to conduct your lives as God wants you to►. 
If anyone of you does not know how to act wisely  in order to endure difficulties/trials well, he should ask God  to show him what he should do, because God wholeheartedly/gladly helps all people  who ask and does not scold  anyone for asking. Those who ask, God will give them wisdom to know  what they should do. 
But  when you ask  God, you should firmly trust him. You should not doubt  that he wants to help you always, because people who keep doubting God are  unstable/changeable SIM like a wave of the sea that is blown back and forth by the wind {that goes back and forth when the wind blows} DOU, SIM. 
Indeed, people  who doubt should not think that the Lord  God will do anything  that they request him to do, 
 because they are people who cannot decide  whether they will commit themselves to God, and they are unstable/undecided in everything that they do. 
Believers who are poor should be happy  that God considers them very valuable (OR, has exalted them spiritually) MTY. 
And believers who are rich should be happy  that they have humbled themselves  in order to trust in Jesus Christ (OR, but rich people  can only take pride  in the fact that God will humble them  when he judges everyone IRO), because they  and their riches MTY will pass away, just like wild flowers  wither SIM. 
When the sun rises, the scorching hot wind dries plants, and their flowers fall and are no longer beautiful. Similarly, rich people will die MET while they are busy working,  leaving behind their riches. 
 God is pleased with people who bravely/patiently endure difficulties. And when,  by bravely enduring difficulties, they have proved  that they truly trust him, he will give them  eternal life. That is the reward MET that he has promised to give to those who love him. 
If people are tempted to do something that is evil, they should not think that it is God who is tempting them, because  God is totally/completely good. He never tempts anyone  to do what is evil, nor can he ever be tempted to  do anything evil. 
But people strongly desire to do evil PRS things,  and as a result they are tempted by those desires {those desires stimulate them} to do something evil PRS, DOU. 
Then,  because they have desired MET to do evil PRS things, they begin to MET do PRS them. And when they have become ones who habitually do what is evil MET,  if they do not turn away from their sinful behavior, they will be separated from God forever. 
My fellow believers whom I love, stop deceiving yourselves,  thinking that God does evil things. 
 The truth is that God, our heavenly Father MTY, does only good DOU things  for us, in order to help us become all that he intends us to be. He is not like all the things  in the sky that he created to give light,  because they change;  that is, they do not shine the same all the time. But God never changes.  He is always good. 
 And because he wanted  to help us, he gave us  spiritual life as a result of our  trusting in his true message. So now we have become the first ones of  all the people MET that he created  to ◄ be totally dedicated to/completely belong to►  him. 
My fellow believers whom I love, you know (OR, I want you to now) that every one of you should be eager to pay attention to  God’s true message. Don’t speak  without thinking, nor get angry easily, 
because when any one  of you gets angry, you will not be doing the righteous things that God  wants you  to do. 
So stop doing all kinds of evil DOU things, and humbly obey (OR, submit to) the message that  God put in your ◄inner beings/hearts►,  because he is able to save you SYN  if you accept his message. 
Do  what God commands in his message. Do not only listen  to it, because people who only listen to it and do not obey it are wrong when they think  that God will save them. 
Some people hear God’s message but do not do  what it says MET. They are like someone who looks at his face in a mirror SIM. 
Although he looks at himself, he goes away  from the mirror and immediately forgets what he looks like. 
But other people look closely at  God’s message, which is perfect and which sets people free  to voluntarily do what God wants them to do. And if they continue  to examine God’s message and do not just hear it and then forget it, but do  what God tells them to do, God will bless them because of what they do. 
Some people think that they worship God in the right way, but they habitually say evil things MTY. Those people are wrong in thinking SYN  that they worship God rightly. The fact is  that they worship God ◄in vain/uselessly►. 
 One of the things that God has told us to do is to take care of orphans and widows who suffer hardship.  Those who do that and who do not think or act immorally like those who do not obey God MTY truly DOU worship God,  who is our Father, and God approves of them.