Whereas the rich, in his being brought low, - because, as a flower of grass, he will pass away;

If ye are, indeed, fulfilling, a royal law, according to the scripture - Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, nobly, are ye doing;

But, if ye are shewing respect of persons, sin, are ye working, being convicted by the law as transgressors!

So, be speaking, and, so, doing, as they who, through means of a law of freedom, are about to be judged;

And the scripture was fulfilled which saith - And Abraham believed God, And it was reckoned to him as righteousness, and, God's friend, was he called:

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

Lo! the ships also, large as they are, and, by rough winds, driven along, are turned about by a very small helm, whithersoever the impulse of the steersman inclineth.

And, the tongue, is a fire, - as , the world of unrighteousness, the tongue, becometh fixed among our members, that which defileth the whole body and setteth on fire the wheel of our natural life, and is set on fire, by gehenna!

Ye covet - and have not, ye commit murder, and are jealous - and cannot obtain, - ye fight and war. Ye have not - because ye do not really ask,

Ye ask and receive not, because that, basely, ye ask, in order that, in your pleasures, ye may spend it .

Your gold and silver, have rusted away, and, their rust, shall be, witness against you, and shall eat your flesh, as fire! Ye have laid up treasure in days of extremity: -