Confess, therefore, your sins one to another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. A righteous man's inwrought supplication avails much.

Consider it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall in with manifold temptations;

But, if any of you is lacking in wisdom, let him ask from God, Who giveth to all liberally, and upbraideth not; and it will be given him;

Is anyone among you sick? let him call for the elders of the assembly; and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil in the name of the Lord;

Every good gift, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with Whom there is no variableness or shadow cast by turning.

A religion, pure and undefiled with our God and Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their tribulation, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

What profit is it, my brethren, if anyone says he has faith, but has not works; can such faith save him?

And become doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.

Submit yourselves, therefore, to God. But resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.

and ye show regard to him who is wearing the splendid apparel, and say, "Sit here in a good place"; and say to the poor man, "Stand, or sit under my footstool";

Ye condemned, ye killed the righteous one; he does not resist you.

But He giveth more grace Wherefore, the Scripture says, "God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble."

Adulteresses! know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever, therefore, purposes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Ye know this, my beloved brethren; but let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;

Let no one, when tempted, say, "I am tempted from God"; for God cannot be tempted with evils, and He Himself tempteth no one.

Happy is a man who endures temptation; because, when he becomes approved, he will receive the crown of life, which He promised to those who love Him.

You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder!

Is anyone among you afflicted? let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? let him sing praise.

For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;

My brethren, become not many of you teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater judgment.

For the sun arose with scorching heat, and withered the grass, and its flower fell out, and the beauty of its appearance perished, so also will the rich man fade away in his goings.

For whosoever keeps the whole law, but stumbles in one point, has become guilty of all.

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

and the rich, in his humiliation; because, as a flower of grass, he shall pass away.

Whence are wars, and whence are battles among you? Are they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?

Draw nigh to God, and He wild draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.

James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes who are in the Dispersion, greeting.

Behold also the ships, large as they are, and driven along by fierce winds, are turned about by a very small rudder, wheresoever the impulse of the steersman wills.

Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.

To him, therefore, who knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.

Be patient, therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth; being patient over it, until it receives the early and latter rain.

But each one is tempted, when by his own desire he is drawn away and enticed.

Who is wise and intelligent among you? Let him show, by his good conduct, his works in meekness of wisdom.

Having willed it, He brought us forth with a word of truth, that we might be a certain first-fruit of His creatures.

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is dead.

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

Come now, ye who say, "To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend one year there, and trade, and get gain,"

do ye not make a distinction among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

Wherefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive in meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

(ye who, indeed, know nothing of to-morrow! what is your life? for ye are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away);

Ye see that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

but let him ask in faith, nothing doubting; for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, wind-driven and tossed.

If, however, ye fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," ye do well;

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

But he who looks carefully into a perfect law??hat of liberty??nd remains by it, becoming not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work??his man shall be happy in his doing.

Ye desire, and have not; ye kill, and envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight, and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.

If anyone thinks that he is religious, while he bridles not his own tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it on your pleasures.

But some one will say, "You have faith, and I have works": show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

My brethren, if anyone among you be led astray from the truth, and one convert him;

Hearken, my beloved brethren, did not God choose the poor of the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to those who love Him?

But above all things, my brethren, swear not, either by Heaven, or by earth, or by any other oath; but let yours be "the yes, yes," and "the no, no"; that ye fall not under condemnation.

But are you willing to know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is worthless?

Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaks against a brother, or judges his brother, speaks against 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 will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and, if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him.

For in many things we all stumble. If anyone stumbles not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to restrain also the whole body.

and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness"; and he was called "God's Friend."

And the tongue is a fire, the world of iniquity! the tongue is placed among our members, as that which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of life, and is set on fire by Hell.

Be ye also patient; establish your hearts, because the coming of the Lord has drawn near.

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will exalt you.

Therewith we bless the Lord and Father; and therewith we curse men, who have been made after the likeness of God.

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

Be wretched, and mourn, and weep; let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness!

Then the desire, having conceived, brings forth sin; and sin, when completed, brings forth death.

knowing that the proving of your faith establishes patience.

Elijah was a man of like nature with us; and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months;

Behold, we pronounce those happy who endured: ye heard of the patience of Job; and ye saw the end of the Lord, that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful.

for he observed himself, and went away, and straightway he forgot what manner of man he was.

let him know that he who converted a sinner from the error of his way, will save a soul from death, and cover a multitude of sins.

One is Law-giver and Judge??e Who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you, that judge your neighbor?

Because, if anyone is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a mirror;

And let patience have a perfect work; that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

But ye dishonored the poor man! Do not the rich oppress you, and do they not drag you before the judgment-seats?

instead of your saying, "If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that."

But now ye are glorying in your boastings! all such glorying is evil.

Do they not blaspheme the worthy name by which ye were called?

For every nature, both of wild beasts and birds, both of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed, by mankind;

but, if ye show respect to persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

My brethren, can a fig tree produce olives; or a vine, figs? Neither can salt water yield sweet.

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

For He Who said, "Do not commit adultery," said also, "Do not kill." Now, if you do not commit adultery, but kill, you have become a transgressor of the law.

Does the fountain send forth, from the same opening, the sweet water and the bitter,

For, if there come into your synagogue a man with a gold ring, in splendid apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile apparel;

Your wealth has become corrupted, and your garments have become moth-eaten.

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

Your gold and silver are covered with rust, and their rust will be for a witness against you, and will eat your flesh, as fire. Ye laid up treasures in the last days!

Ye lived luxuriously on the earth, and rioted in pleasure; ye nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.

Now, if we put the horses' bridles into their mouths, that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also.

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

For the judgment is without mercy to him who showed no mercy: mercy exults over judgment.

So also the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how small a fire kindles how great a forest!

But, if ye have bitter jealousy and contention in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.

For where there are jealousy and contention, there is confusion and every vile deed.

But let the lowly brother glory in his high station;

Behold, the hire of the workmen who mowed down your fields, which is fraudulently kept back by you, is crying out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

a double-souled man, unstable in all his ways.

And, in like manner, was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she received the messengers, and sent them out by another way?

So speak, and so do, as those who are about to be judged by a law of liberty.

Take, brethren, as an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets, who spake in the name of the Lord.

but the tongue no man can tame; a restless evil, full of deadly poison!

Or do ye think that the Scripture says in vain, "The spirit that dwells in us has jealous longings?"

Be not deceived, my beloved brethren.

This wisdom is not the wisdom that comes down from above; but is earthly, soulish, demoniacal!

You see that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith perfected;

Murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye be not judged: behold, The Judge has taken His stand before the doors!

for man's wrath works not God's righteousness.

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those making peace.

and one of you say to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," but ye give them not the things needful for the body, what does it profit?