My brothers and sisters, consider it nothing but joy when you fall into all sorts of trials,

But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there, and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out -- he will be blessed in what he does.

For if someone comes into your assembly wearing a gold ring and fine clothing, and a poor person enters in filthy clothes,

But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich oppressing you and dragging you into the courts?

And if we put bits into the mouths of horses to get them to obey us, then we guide their entire bodies.

Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter into mourning and your joy into despair.

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town and spend a year there and do business and make a profit."

And above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath. But let your "Yes" be yes and your "No" be no, so that you may not fall into judgment.