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 you must let your endurance come to its perfect product, so that you may be fully developed and perfectly equipped, without any defects.

But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.

But let the brother of low degree glory in his high estate:

but the rich in his lowliness, because as a flower of grass he will 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 man 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:

Ye know this , my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, 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 that looketh into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and'so continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing.

If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man's religion is vain.

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 ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgment-seats?

But if you really observe the law of the King in accordance with the Scripture, "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself," you are doing right;

but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

For anyone who keeps all the law, but makes a slip in one point, is judged to have gone against it all.

For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou dost not commit adultery, but killest, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

For judgment is without mercy to the man who has showed no mercy. but mercy glories in the face of judgment.

What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him?

and some man of you would say to them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and fed, but ye would not give them the things necessary for the body, what is the benefit?

But some man will say, Thou have faith, and I have works. Show me thy faith from thy works, and I will show thee from my works my faith.

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

But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is barren?

But was not in like manner also Rahab the harlot justified on the principle of works, when she had received the messengers and put them forth by another way?

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 if we put bridles into the mouths of the horses, that they may obey us; and we manage their whole body;

So the tongue, too, is a little organ but can boast of great achievements. See how a spark, ever so tiny, can set a vast forest on 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 the tongue can no man tame; it is a restless evil, it is full of deadly poison.

But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.

This wisdom is not a wisdom that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

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 peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy.

But the fruit of righteousness in peace is sown for them that make peace.

You covet things, but cannot acquire them, and so you quarrel and fight. You do not have them, because you do not ask for them.

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 giveth more grace. Wherefore the scripture'saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.

Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

One only is the lawgiver and judge, even he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy 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.

although you do not have the slightest knowledge of tomorrow. What is the nature of your life? It is really nothing but a mist which appears for a little while and then disappears.

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 ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying 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 brethren, swear not, neither by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay; that ye fall not 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.