Indeed, if you keep the royal law prescribed in the Scripture, Love your neighbor as yourself, you are doing well.

But if you show favoritism, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

For He who said, Do not commit adultery, also said, Do not murder. So if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you are a lawbreaker.

Foolish man! Are you willing to learn that faith without works is useless?

And consider ships: Though very large and driven by fierce winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs.

We praise our Lord and Father with it, and we curse men who are made in God’s likeness with it.

What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from the cravings that are at war within you?

Don’t criticize one another, brothers. He who criticizes a brother or judges his brother criticizes the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?

You don’t even know what tomorrow will bring—what your life will be! For you are like smoke that appears for a little while, then vanishes.

Come now, you rich people! Weep and wail over the miseries that are coming on you.

Your wealth is ruined and your clothes are moth-eaten.

Your silver and gold are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You stored up treasure in the last days!