For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing from the Lord.

For the sun rises with its burning heat, and withers the grass, and its flower falls, and the beauty of its form perishes. So, also, shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

Let no one say, when he is tempted, My temptation is from God; for God can not be tempted by evils, and he himself tempts no man.

every good gift, and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor slightest trace of turning.

Religion, pure and undefiled before God and the Father, is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

are you not partial in yourselves? and do you not judge from false principles?

Does a fountain send forth from the same cavern sweet water and bitter?

This wisdom comes not from above, but is earthly, animal, demoniac.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Submit yourselves, therefore, to God; resist the devil, and he will flee from you;

Brethren, if any among you should err from the truth, and one should turn him back,

let him know that he who turns back a sinner from the error of his way, will save a soul from death, and cover a multitude of sins.