all we are given is good, and all our endowments are faultless, descending from above, from the Father of the heavenly lights, who knows no change of rising and setting, who casts no shadow on the earth.

are you not drawing distinctions in your own minds and proving that you judge people with partiality?

Speak, act, as those who are to be judged by the law of freedom;

Look at ships too; for all their size and speed under stiff winds, they are turned by a tiny rudder wherever the mind of the steersman chooses.

Who among you is wise and learned? Let him show by his good conduct, with the modesty of wisdom, what his deeds are.

But if you are cherishing bitter jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, do not pride yourselves on that ??and be false to the truth.

One alone is the legislator, who passes sentence; it is He who is able to save and to destroy; who are you, to judge your neighbour?

Come now, you who say, "To-day or to-morrow we are going to such and such a city; we shall spend a year there trading and making money" ??14 you who know nothing about to-morrow! For what is your life? You are but a mist, which appears for a little and then vanishes.

But here you are, boasting in your proud pretensions! All such boasting is wicked.

your wealth lies rotting, and your clothes are moth-eaten;

Do not murmur against one another, brothers, lest you are judged; look, the Judge is standing at the very door!