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;

All joy count it, my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold;

and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

is any infirm among you? 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 giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation -- unspotted to keep himself from the world.

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?

and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

and ye may look upon him bearing the gay raiment, and may say to him, 'Thou -- sit thou here well,' and to the poor man may say, 'Thou -- stand thou there, or, Sit thou here under my footstool,' --

ye did condemn -- ye did murder the righteous one, he doth not resist you.

and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, 'God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'

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.

So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

Let no one say, being tempted -- 'From God I am tempted,' for God is not tempted of evil, and Himself doth tempt no one,

Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.

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

Doth any one suffer evil among you? let him pray; is any of good cheer? let him sing psalms;

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

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

for the sun did rise with the burning heat, and did wither the grass, and the flower of it fell, and the grace of its appearance did perish, so also the rich in his way shall fade away!

for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one point, he hath become guilty of all;

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

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

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

draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!

James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail!

lo, also the ships, being so great, and by fierce winds being driven, are led about by a very small helm, whithersoever the impulse of the helmsman doth counsel,

so also the faith, if it may not have works, is dead by itself.

to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.

Be patient, then, brethren, till the presence of the Lord; lo, the husbandman doth expect the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, till he may receive rain -- early and latter;

and each one is tempted, by his own desires being led away and enticed,

Who is wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom,

having counselled, He did beget us with a word of truth, for our being a certain first-fruit of His creatures.

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

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

Go, now, ye who are saying, 'To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;'

ye did not judge fully in yourselves, and did become ill-reasoning judges.

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

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;

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

and let him ask in faith, nothing doubting, for he who is doubting hath been like a wave of the sea, driven by wind and tossed,

If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' -- ye do well;

and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --

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.

ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;

If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain is the religion;

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

But say may some one, Thou hast faith, and I have works, shew me thy faith out of thy works, and I will shew thee out of my works my faith:

Brethren, if any among you may go astray from the truth, and any one may turn him back,

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?

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.

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

Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge;

and the prayer of the faith shall save the distressed one, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if sins he may have committed, they shall be forgiven to him.

for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one is a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body;

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.

and the tongue is a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.

be patient, ye also; establish your hearts, because the presence of the Lord hath drawn nigh;

be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you.

with it we do bless the God and Father, and with it we do curse the men made according to the similitude of God;

and if a brother or sister may be naked, and may be destitute of the daily food,

be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;

afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to sin, and the sin having been perfected, doth bring forth death.

knowing that the proof of your faith doth work endurance,

Elijah was a man like affected as we, and with prayer he did pray -- not to rain, and it did not rain upon the land three years and six months;

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.

for he did view himself, and hath gone away, and immediately he did forget of what kind he was;

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.

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

because, if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this one hath been like to a man viewing his natural face in a mirror,

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

and ye did dishonour the poor one; do not the rich oppress you and themselves draw you to judgment-seats;

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

and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;

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

For every nature, both of beasts and of fowls, both of creeping things and things of the sea, is subdued, and hath been subdued, by the human nature,

and if ye accept persons, sin ye do work, being convicted by the law as transgressors;

is a fig-tree able, my brethren, olives to make? or a vine figs? so no fountain salt and sweet water is able to make.

out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;

for He who is saying, 'Thou mayest not commit adultery,' said also, 'Thou mayest do no murder;' and if thou shalt not commit adultery, and shalt commit murder, thou hast become a transgressor of law;

doth the fountain out of the same opening pour forth the sweet and the bitter?

for if there may come into your synagogue a man with gold ring, in gay raiment, and there may come in also a poor man in vile raiment,

your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;

and again he did pray, and the heaven did give rain, and the land did bring forth her fruit.

your gold and silver have rotted, and the rust of them for a testimony shall be to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye made treasure in the last days!

ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter;

lo, the bits we put into the mouths of the horses for their obeying us, and their whole body we turn about;

Abraham our father -- was not he declared righteous out of works, having brought up Isaac his son upon the altar?

for the judgment without kindness is to him not having done kindness, and exult doth kindness over judgment.

so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle!

and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;

for where zeal and rivalry are, there is insurrection and every evil matter;

And let the brother who is low rejoice in his exaltation,

lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you -- doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered;

a two-souled man is unstable in all his ways.

and in like manner also Rahab the harlot -- was she not out of works declared righteous, having received the messengers, and by another way having sent forth?

so speak ye and so do, as about by a law of liberty to be judged,

An example take ye of the suffering of evil, my brethren, and of the patience, the prophets who did speak in the name of the Lord;

and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison,

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

Be not led astray, my brethren beloved;

this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like,

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

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

for the wrath of a man the righteousness of God doth not work;

and the fruit of the righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.

and any one of you may say to them, 'Depart ye in peace, be warmed, and be filled,' and may not give to them the things needful for the body, what is the profit?