Let no one, when tempted, say, "I am tempted from God"; for God cannot be tempted with evils, and He Himself tempteth no one.

Every good gift, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with Whom there is no variableness or shadow cast by turning.

Ye know this, my beloved brethren; but let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;

For He Who said, "Do not commit adultery," said also, "Do not kill." Now, if you do not commit adultery, but kill, you have become a transgressor of the law.

For the judgment is without mercy to him who showed no mercy: mercy exults over judgment.

But are you willing to know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is worthless?

Now, if we put the horses' bridles into their mouths, that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also.

but the tongue no man can tame; a restless evil, full of deadly poison!

Adulteresses! know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever, therefore, purposes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Draw nigh to God, and He wild draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.

Come now, ye who say, "To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend one year there, and trade, and get gain,"

(ye who, indeed, know nothing of to-morrow! what is your life? for ye are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away);

But now ye are glorying in your boastings! all such glorying is evil.

Come now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you!

But above all things, my brethren, swear not, either by Heaven, or by earth, or by any other oath; but let yours be "the yes, yes," and "the no, no"; that ye fall not under condemnation.

let him know that he who converted a sinner from the error of his way, will save a soul from death, and cover a multitude of sins.