Greet it as pure joy, my brothers, when you come across any sort of trial,

Whoever of you is defective in wisdom, let him ask God who gives to all men without question or reproach, and the gift will be his.

Only, let him ask in faith, with never a doubt; for the doubtful man is like surge of the sea whirled and swayed by the wind;

Everyone is tempted as he is beguiled and allured by his own desire;

My brothers, as you believe in our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Glory, pay no servile regard to people.

If you really fulfil the royal law laid down by scripture, You must love your neighbour as yourself, well and good;

Speak, act, as those who are to be judged by the law of freedom;

Someone will object, 'And you claim to have faith!' Yes, and I claim to have deeds as well; you show me your faith without any deeds, and I will show you by my deeds what faith is!

and the scripture was fulfilled: Abraham believed God, and this was counted to him as righteousness ??he was called God's friend.

For as the body without the breath of life is dead, so faith is dead without deeds.

We all make many a slip, but whoever avoids slips of speech is a perfect man; he can bridle the whole of the body as well as the tongue.

You crave, and miss what you want: you envy and covet, but you cannot acquire: you wrangle and fight ??you miss what you want because you do not ask God for it;

you do ask and you do not get it, because you ask with the wicked intention of spending it on your pleasures.

You have revelled on earth and plunged into dissipation; you have fattened yourselves as for the Day of slaughter;

As an example of fortitude and endurance, brothers, take the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord.