out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Where do conflicts, where do wrangles come from, in your midst? Is it not from these passions of yours that war among your members?

But now you are glorying in these insolent boastings of yours; all such glorying is evil.

your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will testify against you and devour your flesh like fire. You have stored up these things for the last days.

Look, the wages you have fraudulently refused to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out [against you]. And the cries of these harvest hands have reached the ears of the Lord of [heavenly] armies [i.e., Almighty God].