But let patience have its work perfected, that ye may be perfect and complete, deficient in nothing.

but ye have put contempt on the poor man? Do not the rich men tyrannize over you? and they drag you to the tribunals.

but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

What is the advantage, my brethren, if a man profess to have faith, but hath not works; can faith save him?

Perhaps a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith by thy works, and I will shew thee by my works my faith.

But if ye have bitter envy and contention in your heart, boast not, and lie not against the truth.

Ye eagerly covet, yet have not: ye murder, and are envious, yet cannot obtain [your object]; ye wage war, but have not, because ye pray not.

Your gold and silver is cankered with rust; and the rust upon them is a testimony against you, and shall eat into your flesh as fire. Ye have heaped up treasures in the last days.

Behold, the wages of the workmen who have mowed down your fields, which is kept back by you from them, crieth out: and the loud moans of the reapers are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

Ye have gormandized upon the earth, and lived in every luxury: ye have pampered your hearts, as in a day of feasting on the victim slain.

Ye have falsely condemned, ye have murdered the just man; nor doth he resist you.

My brethren, take a pattern for suffering affliction, and patience from the prophets, who have spoken to you in the name of the Lord.

Behold, we esteem those blessed who patiently endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; for the Lord is full of bowels of mercy, and tenderly compassionate.

Brethren, if any man among you should have erred from the truth, and one convert him;