for you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

But he must ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.

Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am being tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and he himself does not tempt anyone.

Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.

This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger,

My brethren, show no favoritism as you hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.

For judgment will be without mercy to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.

What good is it, my brethren, if a man says he has faith but has no works? Can such faith save him?

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

But are you willing to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is useless?

Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.

But no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit."

Yet you do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.

But above all, my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath, but let your yes be yes and your no be no, that you may not fall under condemnation.

let him know that whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.