Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials;

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all men liberally, and reproaches not; and it shall be given him.

Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

Pure religion and undefiled before God the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

What does it profit, my brethren, though a man says he has faith, and has not works? can faith save him?

But be you doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

And you have respect to him that wears the fine clothing, and say unto him, Sit here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand there, or sit here under my footstool:

You have condemned and killed the just; and he does not resist you.

But he gives more grace. Therefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace unto the humble.

You adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger:

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempts he any man:

Blessed is the man that endures trial: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them that love him.

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

Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord.

My brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the severer judgment.

For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and its flower falls, and the beauty of the appearance of it perishes: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.

But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

From where come wars and fightings among you? come they not from here, even of your lusts that war in your members?

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven by fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires.

Even so faith, if it has not works, is dead, being alone.

Therefore to him that knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.

Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and latter rain.

But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good life his works with meekness of wisdom.

Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

Come now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

Come now, you that say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

Are you not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?

Therefore put away all filthiness and extreme wickedness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

Whereas you know not what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

You see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

If you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well:

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues in it, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

You lust, and have not: you kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: you fight and war, yet you have not, because you ask not.

If any man among you seems to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it upon your lusts.

Yea, a man may say, You have faith, and I have works: show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;

Hearken, my beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to them that love him?

But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest you fall under judgment.

But will you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaks evil of his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law, and judges the law: but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

And the prayer of faith shall deliver the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he has committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

And the scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.

Be also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draws near.

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

With this bless we God, even the Father; and with this curse we men, who are made after the similitude of God.

If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith works patience.

Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months.

Behold, we count them happy who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very compassionate, and of tender mercy.

For he beholds himself, and goes his way, and immediately forgets what manner of man he was.

Let him know, that he who converts the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who are you that judge another?

For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror:

But let patience have her perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

But you have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judges?

For you ought to say, If the Lord wills, we shall live, and do this, or that.

But now you rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by which you are called?

For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind:

But if you have respect to persons, you commit sin, and are convicted of the law as transgressors.

Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if you commit no adultery, yet you kill, you are become a transgressor of the law.

Does a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?

For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in fine apparel, and there come in also a poor man in shabby clothing;

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.

And he prayed again, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth brought forth its fruit.

Your gold and silver is rusted; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as if it were fire. You have heaped treasure together for the last days.

You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; you have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.

Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has showed no mercy; and mercy triumphs over judgment.

Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a forest a little fire kindles!

But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not, and lie not against the truth.

For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:

Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, cries: and the cries of them who have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.

Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?

So speak, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Do you think that the scripture says in vain, The spirit that dwells in us lusts to envy?

Do not err, my beloved brethren.

This wisdom descends not from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic.

See how faith worked with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?

Murmur not one against another, brethren, lest you be judged: behold, the judge stands before the door.

For the anger of man works not the righteousness of God.

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by them that make peace.

And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be warmed and filled; yet you give them not those things which are needful to the body; what does it profit?