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

Wherefore having put away all sordid avarice, and excess of wickedness, in meekness receive the implanted word, able to save your souls.

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

For if any is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man observing the face of his creation in a mirror:

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.

Speak not against one another, brethren. He speaking against a brother, and judging his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law: and if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

There is one legislator, able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another