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

Do not err, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above,

descending from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspoted from the world.

This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, animal, devilish.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits,

From whence come wars and fightings among you? Is it not hence, from your pleasures 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 err from the truth, and one convert him,

Let him know, that he who converteth a sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.