Now if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask for [it] from God, who gives to all without reservation and not reproaching, and it will be given to him.

For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of change.

But someone will say, "You have faith and I have works." Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

But do you want to know, O foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?

From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these [things] ought not to be so!

A spring does not pour forth from the same opening fresh and bitter [water, does it]?

This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but [is] earthly, unspiritual, demonic.

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, obedient, full of mercy and good fruits, nonjudgmental, without hypocrisy,

From where [are] conflicts and from where [are] quarrels among you? [Is it] not from this, from your pleasures that wage war among your members?

Therefore subject yourselves to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Behold, the wages that were held back by you from the workers who reap your fields cry out, and the cries of the reapers have come to the ears of the Lord of hosts.

Behold, we consider blessed those who have endured. You have heard about the patient endurance of Job, and you saw the outcome from the Lord, that the Lord is compassionate and merciful.

My brothers, if anyone among you should wander away from the truth and someone turns him back,

he should know that the one who turns a sinner back from the error of his way will save that person's soul from death, and will cover over a great number of sins.