Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials,

And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren.

This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger;

My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism.

and you pay special attention to the one who is wearing the fine clothes, and say, “You sit here in a good place,” and you say to the poor man, “You stand over there, or sit down by my footstool,”

Listen, my beloved brethren: did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?

What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him?

But someone may well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.”

Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that as such we will incur a stricter judgment.

from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be this way.

Can a fig tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine produce figs? Nor can salt water produce fresh.

You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

Do not complain, brethren, against one another, so that you yourselves may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing right at the door.

But above all, my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath; but your yes is to be yes, and your no, no, so that you may not fall under judgment.

Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.

My brethren, if any among you strays from the truth and one turns him back,