Let it not seem to such a man that he will get anything from the Lord;

Therefore, you should put away [from you] all moral filth and overflowing wickedness and humbly receive the word [of God], planted within you [by the Holy Spirit. See John 16:8], which is capable of saving your souls.

And see that ye be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves with sophistry.

for a bare auditor without practice is like one who sees his image form'd by a mirror:

and [then after] he sees himself, [he] goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

But a man may say, You have faith and I have works; let me see your faith without your works, and I will make my faith clear to you by my works.

Do you not see, O foolish man, that faith without works is of no use?

Thou see that faith was working with his works, and from the works, faith was fully perfected.

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

you see how manageable horses are made by the application of a bit, which makes them take what motion we please.

So the tongue, too, is a little organ but can boast of great achievements. See how a spark, ever so tiny, can set a vast forest on fire!

The harvest of uprightness is grown from the seed of peace by those who are peacemakers.

You are jealous and covet [what others have] and your lust goes unfulfilled; so you murder. You are envious and cannot obtain [the object of your envy]; so you fight and battle. You do not have because you do not ask [it of God].

O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.

Or does it seem to you that it is for nothing that the holy Writings say, The spirit which God put into our hearts has a strong desire for us?

When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.

See, the wages that you have kept back from the laborers who reaped your fields are crying aloud, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

You have condemned and murdered the righteous man [i.e., the innocent person, See verse 4] and he does not [even] resist you.

So be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer keeps on waiting and waiting for the precious crop from his land; how he keeps up his patience over it until he gets the early and late rains,

Say no hard things against one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged; see, the judge is waiting at the doors.

Behold, we call them blessed that endured: ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, how that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful.

My brothers, if one of you has gone out of the way of the true faith and another has made him see his error,