forasmuch as ye know how that the trying of your faith bringeth patience:

For the sun comes up with its scorching heat and dries up the grass. The flower in it drops off, and its beauty is gone. That is how the rich person will fade away in his pursuits.

How blessed is the man who endures temptation! When he has passed the test, he will receive the victor's crown of life that God has promised to those who keep on loving him.

for he looks and then goes off and at once forgets how he looked.

Vain man, must I show you how lifeless a thing faith is, without its effects?

You see how faith was cooperating with deeds, and faith was made perfect by deeds.

Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

My brethren, be not every man a master; Remembering how that we shall receive the more damnation.

you see how manageable horses are made by the application of a bit, which makes them take what motion we please.

So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!

What leads to [the unending] quarrels and conflicts among you? Do they not come from your [hedonistic] desires that wage war in your [bodily] members [fighting for control over you]?

Ye adulterers, and women that break matrimony: know ye not how that the friendship of the world is enmity to Godward? Whosoever will be friend of the world, is made the enemy of God.

How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth:

how do you know, what will happen to-morrow? for, "what is your life?" a vapour that just appears, and then vanishes.

So to him who knows how to do right and does not do it, to him it is sin.

Come now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you.

So be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer keeps on waiting and waiting for the precious crop from his land; how he keeps up his patience over it until he gets the early and late rains,

Behold, we call them blessed that endured: ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, how that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful.