In "Count it all joy," _i.e._ "Consider it as nothing but matter for rejoicing,"[33] we miss a linguistic touch which is evident in the Greek, but cannot well be preserved in English. In saying "joy" (χάραν) St. James is apparently carrying on the idea just started in the address, "greeting" (χαίρειν), _i.e._ "wishing joy." "I wish you _joy_; and you must account as pure _joy_ all the troubles into which you may fall." This carrying on a word or thought from one sentence into the next is characteristic of St. James, and reminds us somewhat of the style of St. John. Thus "The proof of your faith worketh _patience_. And let _patience_ have its perfect work" (i. 3, 4). "_Lacking_ in nothing. But if any of you _lacketh_ wisdom" (4, 5). "Nothing _doubting_: for he that _doubteth_ is like the surge of the sea" (6). "The lust, when it hath conceived, beareth _sin_; and the _sin_, when it is full grown, bringeth forth death" (15). "Slow to _wrath_: for the _wrath_ of man worketh not the righteousness of God" (19, 20). "This man's _religion_ is vain. Pure _religion_ and undefiled before our God and Father is this" (26, 27). "In many things we all _stumble_. If any man _stumbleth_ not in word" (iii. 2). "Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a _fire_! And the tongue is a _fire_" (iii. 5, 6). "Ye have not, because ye _ask_ not. Ye _ask_, and receive not" (iv. 2, 3). "Your gold and your silver are _rusted_; and their _rust_ shall be for a testimony against you" (v. 3). "We call them blessed which _endured_: ye have heard of the _endurance_ of Job" (v. 11).