Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

Therefore laying aside all the filthiness and superfluity of wickedness, receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves:

For if any one be an hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a glass.

But whoso looketh diligently into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and continueth therein, this man being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the word, this man shall be happy in his doing.

For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. If then thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

But art thou willing to know, O empty man, that faith without works is dead?

For in many things we offend all. If any one offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.

Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law. But if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

There is one lawgiver that is able to save and to destroy: Who art thou that judgest another?