February 14, 2012, Reading

1:12	Blessed is the man who suffers temptation. For when he has been proven, he shall receive the crown of life which God has promised to those who love him.
1:13	No one should say, when he is tempted, that he was tempted by God. For God does not entice toward evils, and he himself tempts no one.
1:14	Yet truly, each one is tempted by his own desires, having been enticed and drawn away.
1:15	Thereafter, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin. Yet truly sin, when it has been consummated, produces death.
1:16	And so, do not choose to go astray, my most beloved brothers.
1:17	Every excellent gift and every perfect gift is from above, descending from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor any shadow of alteration.
1:18	For by his own will he produced us through the Word of truth, so that we might be a kind of beginning among his creatures.

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