But let patience have its work perfected, that you may be perfect and faultless, wanting in nothing.

For he shall have judgment without mercy, who has shown no mercy. Mercy glories over judgment.

What profit is there, my brethren, if any one say he has faith, and have not works? Can faith save him?

But some one will say, You have faith, and I have works; show me your faith by your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

You desire, and you have not; you kill, and are earnestly desirous of having, and yet you can not obtain; you fight and war, and yet you have not, because you ask not.

your gold and your silver are covered with rust; and their rust will be a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You have heaped up treasures in the last days.

Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped your fields, which has been unjustly withheld by you, cries out: and the cries of those who have reaped, have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; you have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

You have condemned and killed the Just One: and he does not set himself against you.

Behold, we count those happy who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the final dealing of the Lord, that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.