But let endurance have its perfect work, so that you may be perfect and entire, not lacking in anything.

Such a man need not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord,

Do not be deceived, my brothers!

for a man's anger does not further the righteous purpose of God.

And become doers of the Word, and not merely hearers, deceiving yourselves.

Because if any one is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror;

But the man who looks closely into the perfect law??he law of liberty??nd continues looking, this man will be blessed in his deed because he is not a hearer who forgets, but a doer who does.

If a man thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own religion,

My brothers, do not hold the faith of the Lord Jesus, the Lord of Glory, in a spirit of caste.

are you not drawing distinctions among yourselves, and have you not become judges with evil thoughts?

Listen, my dear brothers, has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith, and to inherit the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him?

But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you to court?

Are they not blaspheming that glorious Name by which you are called?

For he who said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not Kill. Now if you do not commit adultery, but if you do kill, you have transgressed the Law.

If a brother or sister be naked and in need of daily food,

and one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, find warmth and food for yourselves," but at the same time you do not give the necessaries of the body, what good would that do them?

In just the same way faith, if it have not deeds, is by itself a lifeless thing.

Was not Abraham our ancestor justified by deeds, in that he offered up Isaac, his son, upon the altar?

You see, then, that it is by his deeds a man is justified, and not simply by his faith.

In like manner was not Rahab, the harlot, justified by her deeds, in the fact that she received the messengers and sent them forth by another way?

Do not become many teachers, my brothers, because you know well that we teachers shall be judged by a severer standard than others.

From out of the same mouth pour forth blessings and cursings! My brothers, this ought not to be so.

But if you have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, do not be boasting of that, and be false to the truth.

Such wisdom is not that which is descending from on high, but is earthly, sensual, demonlike.

Where do the conflicts and quarrels that go on among you come from? Do they not come from your passions which are always making war among your bodily members?

You continually crave and do not obtain; you are killing and coveting and cannot acquire; you are fighting and at war. You do not have, because you do not ask.

You continue to ask and do not receive, because you are asking with a wrong purpose, in order to spend it upon your pleasures.

You adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? Whoever, then, desires to be a friend of the world, makes himself and enemy of God.

Do not be talking against each other, brothers. He who is talking against a brother and condemning his brothers is talking against the Law and condemning the Law. But if you are condemning the Law, you are not a doer of the Law, but a judge.

when all the time you do not know what will happen on the morrow. For what is your life? You are but a mist, appearing for a brief time, and then vanishing.

So to him who knows how to do right and does not do it, to him it is sin.

Do not make complaints against each other, brothers, lest you yourselves be condemned. Behold the Judge is standing before the very door!

Again, above all things, my brothers, swear not at all, neither by the heavens, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath. Let your "yes" be "yes," and your "no," "no," so you will not fall under condemnation.