Now let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation,

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted by God, for God is without temptation of evils, and he himself tempts no man.

Every good gift and every perfect endowment is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation nor shadow of turning.

For he who said thou shall not commit adultery, also said thou shall not murder. Now if thou will not commit adultery, but murder, thou have become a transgressor of law.

For the judgment is merciless to him who did no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

What is the benefit, my brothers, if some man should say to have faith, but has no works? Can the faith save him?

So also faith, if it has no works, is dead by itself.

But do thou want to know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

But no man is able to tame the tongue of men, an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

A fig tree, my brothers, cannot make olives, or a grapevine figs. In the same way, no one spring makes water salty and sweet.

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is hatred of God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

Go now, men who say, Today and tomorrow we will go into this city, and will operate one year there, and will engage in trade and will get gain--

men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away--

But now ye boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

Go now, ye rich, weep, howling for your miseries that are approaching.

But above all things, my brothers, swear not. Neither by the heaven, nor the earth, nor any other oath, but let your yes be yes, and the no, no, so that ye may not fall into hypocrisy.

let him know that he who converts a sinful man from his wandering way, will save a soul from death, and will hide a multitude of sins.