My brothers and sisters, consider it nothing but joy when you fall into all sorts of trials,

But let patience have it's perfect work,

But let patience have its work perfected, that ye may be perfect and complete, deficient in nothing.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.

But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;

but the rich, in his abasement: for as the flower of grass he shall pass away.

For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

then lust, having conceived, gives birth to sin; but sin fully completed brings forth death.

and every perfect gift, but no evil one, is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation, nor shadow of turning:

This you know, my beloved brothers. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

For if anyone hears the word but is not obedient to it, he is like a man who looks at himself in a mirror

But he who looks into the perfect Law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

If anyone thinks himself to be religious while he does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.

and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing, and say, "Sit here in a good place;" but you tell the poor man, "Stand there," or "Sit by my footstool;"

Stand thou there, or, Sit thou here under my footstool, Ye distinguish not in yourselves, but are become evil-reasoning judges.

Hear, my beloved brethren; hath not God chosen the poor of this world who are rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which He hath promised to them that love Him? but ye have slighted the poor.

But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

But if you keep the greatest law of all, as it is given in the holy Writings, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself, you do well:

But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

For whosoever shall keep the whole law, but offendeth in a single particular, he is chargeable with the breach of all.

For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not commit murder." Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

For the man who has had no mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy takes pride in overcoming judging.

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

And one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warm and full of food; but you do not give them the things of which their bodies have need, what profit is there in this?

But a man may say, You have faith and I have works; let me see your faith without your works, and I will make my faith clear to you by my works.

you believe there is but one God, very well: the demons believe as much, and tremble."

But do you want to know, foolish man, that faith apart from works is useless?

But was not Rahab the harlot in like manner justified by works, when she entertained the messengers, and sent them away by a different road?

We all make many a slip, but whoever avoids slips of speech is a perfect man; he can bridle the whole of the body as well as the tongue.

But we put bits into the mouths of horses that they may obey us, and direct their whole body;

Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire!

the tongue is a brand that sets the world in a combustion: it is but one of the numerous organs of the body, yet it can blast whole assemblies: tipp'd with infernal sulphur it sets the whole train of life in a blaze.

But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and do not lie against the truth.

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, without hypocrisy.

But the fruit of righteousness in peace is sown for those who are peacemakers.

Ye eagerly covet, yet have not: ye murder, and are envious, yet cannot obtain [your object]; ye wage war, but have not, because ye pray not.

You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure.

Or, do you think that the Scripture says [this] for nothing? [Note: No specific passage is here cited, but the idea occurs in several Old Testament passages]. "The Holy Spirit, whom God has made to live in us, longs jealously [for us to be faithful to God]."

But He gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Do not speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

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

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.

though ye know nothing of what shall be to-morrow. For what is your life? It is but a vapour which appeareth for a little while, and then vanishes away.

But the right thing to say would be, If it is the Lord's pleasure and if we are still living, we will do this and that.

But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

So when a man knows what is right but does not do it, he is guilty of sin.

Look! The wages that you have [fraudulently] withheld from the laborers who have mowed your fields are crying out [against you for vengeance]; and the cries of the harvesters have come to the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

Here on earth you have lived self-indulgent and profligate lives. You have stupefied yourselves with gross feeding; but a day of slaughter has come.

But above all things, my brothers, do not swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your "yes" be "yes," and your "no," "no;" so that you do not fall under judgment.

Elijah was only a man like ourselves, but, when he prayed fervently that it might not rain, no rain fell upon the land for three years and a half.