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

Let no man under temptation say, I am tempted of God: for God is incapable of temptation from evils, and he tempteth no man:

Every good gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, descending from the father of illuminations, with whom there is no variableness, nor shadow of change.

Pure religion and undefiled with God even the Father is this, To pay diligent attention to the orphans and widows in their affliction, and to preserve himself spotless from the world.

are you not thus partial among yourselves, and form your decision from bad reasonings?

Doth a fountain from the same aperture spout forth sweet water and bitter?

This is not the wisdom which cometh from above, but is earthly, sensual, diabolical.

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, meek, easily persuadable, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial, and void of dissimulation.

FROM whence come wars and conflicts among you? spring they not from hence, even from your passions, which war in your members?

Be in subjection then to God. Resist the devil, and he will fly from you.

Behold, the wages of the workmen who have mowed down your fields, which is kept back by you from them, crieth out: and the loud moans of the reapers are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

My brethren, take a pattern for suffering affliction, and patience from the prophets, who have spoken to you in the name of the Lord.

Brethren, if any man among you should have erred from the truth, and one convert him;

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