Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various temptations,

for if there come unto your synagogue a man with a gold ring in splendid apparel, and a poor man also come in in vile apparel,

but the tongue can no one among men tame; it is an unsettled evil, full of death-bringing poison.

But the wisdom from above first is pure, then peaceful, gentle, yielding, full of mercy and good fruits, unquestioning, unfeigned.

Ye lust and have not: ye kill and are full of envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask not.

Subject yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Behold, we call them blessed who have endured. Ye have heard of the endurance of Job, and seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is full of tender compassion and pitiful.

But before all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay, that ye do not fall under judgment.