And let patience have a perfect work; that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

But, if any of you is lacking in wisdom, let him ask from God, Who giveth to all liberally, and upbraideth not; and it will be given him;

Let no one, when tempted, say, "I am tempted from God"; for God cannot be tempted with evils, and He Himself tempteth no one.

But each one is tempted, when by his own desire he is drawn away and enticed.

Be not deceived, my beloved brethren.

Every good gift, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with Whom there is no variableness or shadow cast by turning.

Having willed it, He brought us forth with a word of truth, that we might be a certain first-fruit of His creatures.

Ye know this, my beloved brethren; but let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;

But he who looks carefully into a perfect law??hat of liberty??nd remains by it, becoming not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work??his man shall be happy in his doing.

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

Do they not blaspheme the worthy name by which ye were called?

but, if ye show respect to persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

So speak, and so do, as those who are about to be judged by a law of liberty.

If a brother or a sister be naked, and in want of daily food,

and one of you say to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," but ye give them not the things needful for the body, what does it profit?

But some one will say, "You have faith, and I have works": show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

Was not Abraham, our father, justified by works, when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

You see that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith perfected;

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

And, in like manner, was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she received the messengers, and sent them out by another way?

Behold also the ships, large as they are, and driven along by fierce winds, are turned about by a very small rudder, wheresoever the impulse of the steersman wills.

And the tongue is a fire, the world of iniquity! the tongue is placed among our members, as that which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of life, and is set on fire by Hell.

For every nature, both of wild beasts and birds, both of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed, by mankind;

Out of the same mouth come forth blessing and cursing! My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Who is wise and intelligent among you? Let him show, by his good conduct, his works in meekness of wisdom.

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those making peace.

Adulteresses! know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever, therefore, purposes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Be wretched, and mourn, and weep; let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness!

Your gold and silver are covered with rust, and their rust will be for a witness against you, and will eat your flesh, as fire. Ye laid up treasures in the last days!

Behold, the hire of the workmen who mowed down your fields, which is fraudulently kept back by you, is crying out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

Be patient, therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth; being patient over it, until it receives the early and latter rain.

Be ye also patient; establish your hearts, because the coming of the Lord has drawn near.

Murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye be not judged: behold, The Judge has taken His stand before the doors!

But above all things, my brethren, swear not, either by Heaven, or by earth, or by any other oath; but let yours be "the yes, yes," and "the no, no"; that ye fall not under condemnation.

and the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and, if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him.

Confess, therefore, your sins one to another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. A righteous man's inwrought supplication avails much.

My brethren, if anyone among you be led astray from the truth, and one convert him;