that man need not imagine he will get anything from God,

Be sure of that, my beloved brothers. Let everyone be quick to listen, slow to talk, slow to be angry ??20 for human anger does not promote divine righteousness;

Whoever considers he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, his religion is futile.

are you not drawing distinctions in your own minds and proving that you judge people with partiality?

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

Now you insult the poor. Is it not the rich who lord it over you and drag you to court?

Is it not they who scoff at the noble Name you bear?

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

When our father Abraham offered his son Isaac on the altar, was he not justified by what he did?

You observe it is by what he does that a man is justified, not simply by what he believes.

So too with Rahab the harlot. Was she not justified by what she did, when she entertained the scouts and got them away by a different road?

My brothers, do not swell the ranks of the teachers; remember, we teachers will be judged with special strictness.

blessing and cursing stream from the same lips! My brothers, this ought not to be.

But if you are cherishing bitter jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, do not pride yourselves on that ??and be false to the truth.

That is not the wisdom which comes down from above, it is an earthly wisdom, sensuous, devilish;

Where do conflicts, where do wrangles come from, in your midst? Is it not from these passions of yours that war among your members?

You crave, and miss what you want: you envy and covet, but you cannot acquire: you wrangle and fight ??you miss what you want because you do not ask God for it;

you do ask and you do not get it, because you ask with the wicked intention of spending it on your pleasures.

(Wanton creatures! do you not know that the world's friendship means enmity to God? Whoever, then, chooses to be the world's friend, turns enemy to God.

follow 2:13] Do not defame one another, brothers; he who defames or judges his brother defames and judges the Law; and if you judge the Law, you pass sentence on it instead of obeying it.

[follows 2:26] Whoever, then, knows what is right to do and does not do it, that is a sin for him.

Do not murmur against one another, brothers, lest you are judged; look, the Judge is standing at the very door!

Elijah was a man with a nature just like our own; but he offered prayer that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain;