every good gift, and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor slightest trace of turning.

For if there comes into your assembly a man in splendid apparel, and with gold rings on his fingers, and there comes in also a poor man, in mean clothing,

and you show regard to him that wears the splendid apparel, and say to him, Sit here, in an honorable place; and you say to the poor man, Do you stand there, or sit here, under my footstool;

What profit is there, my brethren, if any one say he has faith, and have not works? Can faith save him?

You believe that there is one God; you do well: the demons also believe, and tremble.

For where envy and strife are, there is commotion, and every evil work.

There is one law-giver that is able to save, and to destroy: who are you that judge an other?

Come, now, you that say, Let us go to-day, or to-morrow, into this city, and remain there a year, and trade, and make gain;