And let patience have a perfect work, that ye be perfect and entire, being left behind in nothing.

If any of you is forsaken of wisdom, let him ask of God, giving to all plainly, blaming not; and it shall be given him.

And let him ask in faith, being at variance in nothing. For he being at variance is like the surge of the sea being moved by the wind and put in motion.

And the rich, in his humiliation: for as the flower of the grass he shall pass by.

For the sun sprang up with heat, and dried up the grass, and its flower fell out, and the decorum of its face was destroyed: so also shall the rich be dried up in his goings.

Be not led astray, my dearly beloved brethren.

Having willed he brought forth by the word of truth, for us to be some first fruit of his creatures.

Wherefore, my dearly beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger:

And be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

And he having stooped into the perfect law of liberty, and remained, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of work, he shall be happy in his doing.

If any among you seem to be religious, bridling not his tongue, but deceiving his heart, the religion of this one vain.

So speak ye, and so do, as about to be judged by the law of liberty.

And if a brother or sister be naked, and be failing of daily food,

And any of you say to them, Retire in peace, be ye warmed and be ye fed; and ye give them not things fitting the body; what profit?

So also faith, if it have not works, is dead by itself.

Was not Abraham our father justified by works, having brought up Isaac his son upon the altar

And likewise also was not Rehab the harlot justified by works, having received the messengers, and cast out by another way?

Be ye not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive the greater judgment.

For in many things we all stumble. If any stumble not in word, this a perfect man, able to govern by a bridle also the whole body.

Behold also ships, being so great, and driven by hard winds, are led by the smallest rudder, wherever the desire of him steering should will.

(And the tongue a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is placed in our members, defiling the whole body, and burning the wheel of creation; and burned by hell.

For every nature of beasts, and also of birds, of creeping things, and also of things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by the nature of man:

Out of the same month comes forth blessing and cursing. There is no need, my brethren, for these things so to be.

And the fruit of justice is sown in peace by those making peace.

Adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is the enmity of God? whoever therefore would wish to be the friend of the world is set the enemy of God.

Be subjected therefore to God. Resist the accuser, and he will flee from you.

Toil, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and joy to dejection.

Be ye humbled before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

Your gold and silver is become rusty; and their rust shall be for a witness to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have gathered up treasures in the last days.

Behold, the hire of laborers having reaped your farms, withheld by you, cries out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

Therefore be longsuffering, brethren, even to the arrival of the Lord. Behold, the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the earth, being longsuffering for it, even till he should receive the early and late rain.

Be longsuffering, ye also; make your hearts firm: for the arrival of the Lord has drawn near.

Groan not against one another, brethren, that ye be not condemned: behold, the judge stands before the door.

And before all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by earth, nor any other oath: and let your yea be yea; and nay, nay; that ye fall not under. judgment.

And the prayer of faith shall save him being sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he should have wrought sins, it shall be remitted to him.

Acknowledge your faults to one another, and pray for one another, that ye might be healed. The prayer of the just, being energetic, is very powerful.

Brethren, if any among you be led astray from the truth, and any should turn him back;