because you know that the testing of your faith is working out endurance.

But he should ask in faith, without doubting, because the person who doubts [that he will receive wisdom] is like an ocean wave that is driven and tossed by the wind.

because he is double-minded and undecided in all that he does [i.e., he cannot make up his mind and follow through about anything].

and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

Blessed is a man who endures temptation, because, having become approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

No one should say when he is tempted, "God is tempting me," because God cannot be tempted by evil and He does not tempt anyone.

Because he willed, he gave us birth through the word of truth, so that we should be a kind of first-fruits among his creatures.

Because if any man is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this resembles a man observing his natural face in a mirror.

But the man who looks closely into the perfect law??he law of liberty??nd continues looking, this man will be blessed in his deed because he is not a hearer who forgets, but a doer who does.

but if you show partiality, you are committing sin, because you are convicted by the law as lawbreakers.

In the same way, if [your] faith does not have [good] deeds [to accompany it], it is dead, [because it stands] alone.

Was it, or was it not, because of his actions that he was declared to be righteous as the result of his having offered up his son Isaac upon the altar?

You all see that it is because of actions that a man is pronounced righteous, and not simply because of faith.

In the same way also was not the notorious sinner Rahab declared to be righteous because of her actions when she welcomed the spies and hurriedly helped them to escape another way?

Many of you, my brothers, should avoid becoming teachers, because you know that we teachers are going to be judged with stricter judgment than other people.

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.

Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.

Be ye also patient. Establish your hearts, because the coming of the Lord has approached.

See how we call those who thus endured happy! You have heard how patiently Job endured and have seen how the Lord finally blessed him, because the Lord is tenderhearted and merciful.