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

the double-minded man, the most unstable in all his ways.

and the rich man, in his humility: because as the flower of the grass he will pass away.

For the sun with a scorching wind has risen, and dried up the grass, and its flower fell off, and the beauty of its countenance perished: so indeed the rich man will pass away in his ways.

Happy is the man who endures temptation: because, being proved, he will receive a crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him with divine love.

Know, my beloved brethren; but let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow toward wrath:

for the wrath of man works 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 mirror:

But if any one seems to be religious, bridling not his own tongue, but deceiving his own heart, the religion of that man is vain.

For if a gold-ringed man may come into your synagogue, in shining apparel, and a poor man may also come in with soiled clothing;

and you may look upon the one wearing the shining garment, and say, Sit thou here in a good place; and may say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or sit down beneath my footstool:

Do you wish to know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is inefficient?

You see that a man is justified by works, and not only by faith.

For we all fail in many things; if any one fails not in word, the same is a perfect man, able even to bridle the whole body.

but no one of men is able to tame the tongue; an incorrigible evil, full of deadly poison.

Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, in order that you may be healed: the inward working prayer of a righteous man avails much.

Elijah was a man of like suffering to us, and he prayed with prayer that it might not rain, and it rained not upon the earth during three years and six months;