but you must let your endurance come to its perfect product, so that you may be fully developed and perfectly equipped, without any defects.

But if any one of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask God who generously gives to everyone and never reproaches one with its lack, and it will be given to him.

Let the poor brother of lowly station rejoice in his exalted station as a Christian,

Who among you is wise and intelligent? Let him show by his noble living that his good deeds are done in humility, which wisdom prompts.

Be miserable, mourn ... and weep aloud. Let your laughter be turned to grief and your joy to gloom.

Above all, my brothers, stop swearing, either by heaven or by the earth, or by anything else. Let your "Yes" mean Yes, and your "No," No, so as to keep from falling under condemnation.