James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes who are in the Dispersion, greeting.

So speak, and so do, as those who are about to be judged by a law of liberty.

But are you willing to know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is worthless?

Behold also the ships, large as they are, and driven along by fierce winds, are turned about by a very small rudder, wheresoever the impulse of the steersman wills.

For where there are jealousy and contention, there is confusion and every vile deed.

Whence are wars, and whence are battles among you? Are they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?

Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaks against a brother, or judges his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law; but, if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

One is Law-giver and Judge??e Who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you, that judge your neighbor?

(ye who, indeed, know nothing of to-morrow! what is your life? for ye are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away);

But now ye are glorying in your boastings! all such glorying is evil.

Come now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you!

Your gold and silver are covered with rust, and their rust will be for a witness against you, and will eat your flesh, as fire. Ye laid up treasures in the last days!