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

For the sun comes up with its scorching heat and dries up the grass, and its flowers wither, and its beauty fades away; so will rich men fade away in their pursuits.

Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, in whom there is no variation or changing shadow.

For if a man with a gold ring, dressed in fine clothes, comes to your meeting, and at the same time a poor man clad in dirty clothes,

This is not the kind of wisdom that comes down from above; no, it is earthly, human, demoniacal.

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we are going to such and such a city and stay a year, go into business and make money,"

Come now, you rich people, weep aloud and howl over the miseries that are sure to overtake you.