And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil motives?

But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you and personally drag you into court?

Do they not blaspheme the fair name by which you have been called?

For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not commit murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

But someone may well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.”

With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the likeness of God;

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.

You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.

Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten.

Your gold and your silver have rusted; and their rust will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have stored up your treasure!

You have lived luxuriously on the earth and led a life of wanton pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

You have condemned and put to death the righteous man; he does not resist you.

We count those blessed who endured. You have heard of the endurance of Job and have seen the outcome of the Lord’s dealings, that the Lord is full of compassion and is merciful.