Let no one say, when he is tempted, My temptation is from God; for God can not be tempted by evils, and he himself tempts no man.

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

but the tongue no man can tame; it is an unruly evil; it is full of deadly poison.

Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olives, or the vine, figs? So no fountain can produce salt water and fresh.

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.

Come, now, you that say, Let us go to-day, or to-morrow, into this city, and remain there a year, and trade, and make gain;