For let not that man think that he shall receive anything from the Lord,

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no change, nor shadow from turning.

Pure religion and undefiled before God, the Father, is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep ones self unspotted from the world.

Doth a fountain from the same opening send forth sweet water and bitter?

This wisdom is not that which descendeth from above, but earthly, sensual, devilish.

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

Whence are wars and whence are fightings among you? Are they not hence, from your lusts that war in your members?

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

Brethren, if any one among you be led astray from the truth, and one convert him,

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