Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

haven't you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not commit murder." Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

Yes, a man will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without works, and I by my works will show you my faith.

For all kinds of animals, and birds, of reptiles and sea creatures, are being tamed and have been tamed by mankind.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and do not lie against the truth.

You lust, and do not have. You kill, covet, and cannot obtain. You fight and make war. You do not have, because you do not ask.

Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.

You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He does not resist you.

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.