For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.

Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.

for the anger of man does not accomplish the righteousness of God.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;

But he who looks into the perfect Law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

If anyone thinks himself to be religious while he does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.

My brothers, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Did not God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

Do not they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?

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

and one of you tells them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled;" and yet you did not give them the things the body needs, what good is it?

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

In like manner was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

For in many things we all stumble. If anyone does not stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and do not lie against the truth.

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

Where do conflicts and quarrels among you come from? Do they not come from your passions that war in your members?

You lust, and do not have. You kill, covet, and cannot obtain. You fight and make war. You do not have, because you do not ask.

You ask, and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

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

Whereas you do not know what tomorrow will be like. What is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

To him therefore who knows to do good, and does not do it, to him it is sin.

You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He does not resist you.

Do not grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won't be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

But above all things, my brothers, do not swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your "yes" be "yes," and your "no," "no;" so that you do not fall under judgment.

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.