For let not that man think that he shall receive anything from the Lord,

a doubleminded man as he is, unstable in all his ways.

For the sun rose with its burning heat, and withered the grass, and its flower fell off, and the beauty of its appearance perished; so also will the rich man fade away in his ways.

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he is approved, he will receive the crown of life, which He promised to them that love him.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.

For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

For if any one is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a glass;

for he beholds himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what manner of man he was.

But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty, and remains there, being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in his deed.

For if there come into your assembly a man with a gold ring, in splendid apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment,

and ye have respect to him that weareth the splendid apparel, and say, Sit thou here in a good place, and say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or, Sit under my footstool,

but ye have despised the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and do not they drag you before the judgmentseats?

But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is idle?

Ye see that by works a man is accounted as righteous, and not by faith only.

For in many things we all offend. If any one offend not in speech, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

but the tongue can no man tame; it is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

Therewith bless we the Lord and Father, and therewith curse we men, who have been made after the likeness of God;

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

Ye have condemned, ye have killed the just man; he doth not resist you.

Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

Elijah was a man of like nature with us, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months;