for you surely know that what is genuine in your faith produces the patient mind that endures;

No one must say, when he is tempted to do evil, "I have a temptation from God to do evil," for God cannot be tempted to do evil, and He never tempts anyone to do so.

Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, in whom there is no variation or changing shadow.

For He who said, "You must not commit adultery," also said, "You must not commit murder." Now if you do not commit adultery but you do commit murder, you are just the same a lawbreaker.

My brothers, what good is there in a man's saying that he has faith, if he has no good deeds to prove it? Such faith cannot save him, can it?

If some brother or sister is thinly clad and has no food for the day,

So faith by itself, if it has no deeds to back it up, is dead.

Many of you, my brothers, should avoid becoming teachers, because you know that we teachers are going to be judged with stricter judgment than other people.

but the tongue no human being can tame. It is an evil incapable of being quieted, full of deadly poison.

This is not the kind of wisdom that comes down from above; no, it is earthly, human, demoniacal.

You faithless wives! Do you not know that the friendship of the world means enmity with God? So whoever wants to be a friend to the world puts himself down as an enemy to God.

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we are going to such and such a city and stay a year, go into business and make money,"

Come now, you rich people, weep aloud and howl over the miseries that are sure to overtake you.

You have condemned and murdered the upright man; he offers no resistance.

Above all, my brothers, stop swearing, either by heaven or by the earth, or by anything else. Let your "Yes" mean Yes, and your "No," No, so as to keep from falling under condemnation.