knowing that the proof of your faith doth work endurance,

and let the endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire -- in nothing lacking;

for let not that man suppose that he shall receive anything from the Lord --

wherefore having put aside all filthiness and superabundance of evil, in meekness be receiving the engrafted word, that is able to save your souls;

and he who did look into the perfect law -- that of liberty, and did continue there, this one -- not a forgetful hearer becoming, but a doer of work -- this one shall be happy in his doing.

Hearken, my brethren beloved, did not God choose the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the reign that He promised to those loving Him?

do they not themselves speak evil of the good name that was called upon you?

What is the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him?

thou -- thou dost believe that God is one; thou dost well, and the demons believe, and they shudder!

And dost thou wish to know, O vain man, that the faith apart from the works is dead?

dost thou see that the faith was working with his works, and out of the works the faith was perfected?

and fulfilled was the Writing that is saying, 'And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;' and, 'Friend of God' he was called.

Ye see, then, that out of works is man declared righteous, and not out of faith only;

Many teachers become not, my brethren, having known that greater judgment we shall receive,

Whence are wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend it.

Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, 'To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'

one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; thou -- who art thou that dost judge the other?

who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;

instead of your saying, 'If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;'

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

murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye may not be condemned; lo, the Judge before the door hath stood.

lo, we call happy those who are enduring; the endurance of Job ye heard of, and the end of the Lord ye have seen, that very compassionate is the Lord, and pitying.

And before all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, and let your Yes be Yes, and the No, No; that under judgment ye may not fall.

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

let him know that he who did turn back a sinner from the straying of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.