James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?

Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?

But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?

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 governor listeth.

Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which 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 sabaoth.

Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.