But if any one of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask God who generously gives to everyone and never reproaches one with its lack, and it will be given to him.

But he must ask in faith, without a doubt, for the man who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is whirled and swayed by the wind.

Let the poor brother of lowly station rejoice in his exalted station as a Christian,

But if you really observe the law of the King in accordance with the Scripture, "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself," you are doing right;

but if you show partiality, you are committing sin, because you are convicted by the law as lawbreakers.

You must continue talking and acting like people who are to be judged by the law that treats them as free.

Just as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without good deeds is dead.

And the tongue is a fire, and takes its place among the parts of our bodies as a world of evil; it soils the whole body and sets on fire the circle of man's nature, and itself is set on fire by hell.

You covet things, but cannot acquire them, and so you quarrel and fight. You do not have them, because you do not ask for them.

You ask and fail to get them, because you ask with evil, selfish motives, to spend them on your pleasures.

You faithless wives! Do you not know that the friendship of the world means enmity with God? So whoever wants to be a friend to the world puts himself down as an enemy to God.

But, as it is, you boast of your proud pretensions. All such boasting is wicked.

Stop muttering against one another, brothers, so as to keep from being judged yourselves. Look! The Judge is standing at the very door.

As an example of ill-treatment and patience, brothers, take the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord.

Above all, my brothers, stop swearing, either by heaven or by the earth, or by anything else. Let your "Yes" mean Yes, and your "No," No, so as to keep from falling under condemnation.