and let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and sound, lacking nothing.

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, which giveth to all men indifferently and casteth no man in the teeth; and it shall be given him.

Of his own will begat he us with the word of life, that we should be the first fruits of his creatures.

Wherefore, dear brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.

And see that ye be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves with sophistry.

but whoso looketh in the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein - if he be not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work - the same shall be happy in his deed.

Do not they speak evil of that good name after which ye be named?

So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

For there shall be judgment, merciless, to him that showeth no mercy, and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.

If a brother or a sister be naked or destitute of daily food,

Yea, and a man might say, "Thou hast faith, and I have deeds: Show me thy faith by thy deeds: and I will show thee my faith by my deeds."

My brethren, be not every man a master; Remembering how that we shall receive the more damnation.

Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the violence of the governor will:

Out of one mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

If any man be wise and endued with learning among you, let him show the works of his good conversation in meekness that is coupled with wisdom.

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, rejoice not: neither be liars against the truth.

but the wisdom that is from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, and without simulation.

Ye adulterers, and women that break matrimony: know ye not how that the friendship of the world is enmity to Godward? Whosoever will be friend of the world, is made the enemy of God.

Suffer afflictions: sorrow ye and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

Go to now, ye that say, "Today and tomorrow let us go into such a city and continue there a year and buy, and sell, and win,"

Your gold and your silver are cankered, and the rust of them shall be a witness unto you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together in your last days.

Behold, the hire of the laborers which have reaped down your fields - which hire is of you kept back by fraud - crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped, are entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience there upon, until he receive the early and the latter rain.

Be ye also patient therefore, and settle your hearts, for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be damned. Behold, the judge standeth before the door.

But above all things, my brethren, swear not: neither by heaven, neither by earth, neither by any other oath. Let your yea be "yea," and your nay, "nay," lest ye fall into hypocrisy.

If any of you be evil vexed, let him pray. If any of you be merry, let him sing Psalms.

If any be diseased among you, let him call for the elders of the congregation, and let them pray over him, and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord:

and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up: and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

Knowledge your faults one to another: and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man availeth much, if it be fervent.

Elijah was a man, mortal even as we are, and he prayed in his prayer, that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.