And let endurance have its perfect effect, so that you will be perfect and complete, not deficient in anything.

For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord,

Do not be led astray, my dear brothers and sisters.

For human anger does not accomplish God's righteousness.

But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves.

For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone who gazes at his own face in a mirror.

But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there, and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out -- he will be blessed in what he does.

If someone thinks he is religious yet does not bridle his tongue, and so deceives his heart, his religion is futile.

My brothers and sisters, do not show prejudice if you possess faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.

If so, have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil motives?

Listen, my dear brothers and sisters! Did not God choose the poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?

But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich oppressing you and dragging you into the courts?

Do they not blaspheme the good name of the one you belong to?

For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not murder." Now if you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a violator of the law.

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith save him?

and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, keep warm and eat well," but you do not give them what the body needs, what good is it?

So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.

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

You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

And similarly, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another way?

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, because you know that we will be judged more strictly.

For we all stumble in many ways. If someone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect individual, able to control the entire body as well.

From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. These things should not be so, my brothers and sisters.

A spring does not pour out fresh water and bitter water from the same opening, does it?

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.

Such wisdom does not come from above but is earthly, natural, demonic.

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and not hypocritical.

Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you?

You desire and you do not have; you murder and envy and you cannot obtain; you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask;

you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.

Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world's friend makes himself God's enemy.

Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. He who speaks against a fellow believer or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge.

You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.

So whoever knows what is good to do and does not do it is guilty of sin.

You have condemned and murdered the righteous person, although he does not resist you.

Do not grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be judged. See, the judge stands before the gates!

And above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath. But let your "Yes" be yes and your "No" be no, so that you may not fall into judgment.

Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain and there was no rain on the land for three years and six months!