only, let your endurance be a finished product, so that you may be finished and complete, with never a defect.

Only, let him ask in faith, with never a doubt; for the doubtful man is like surge of the sea whirled and swayed by the wind;

but let one who is rich exult in being lowered; for the rich will pass away like the flower of the grass ??11 up comes the sun with the scorching wind and withers the grass, its flower drops off, and the splendour of it is ruined: so shall the rich fade away amid their pursuits.

Let no one who is tried by temptation say, 'My temptation comes from God'; God is incapable of being tempted by evil and he tempts no one.

so clear away all the foul rank growth of malice, and make a soil of modesty for the Word which roots itself inwardly with power to save your souls.

if you attend to the wearer of the handsome clothes and say to him, "Sit here, this is a good place," and tell the poor man, "You can stand," or "Sit there at my feet,"

So faith, unless it has deeds, is dead in itself.

You believe in one God? Well and good. So do the devils, and they shudder.

In his case, you see, faith co-operated with deeds, faith was completed by deeds,

and the scripture was fulfilled: Abraham believed God, and this was counted to him as righteousness ??he was called God's friend.

So too with Rahab the harlot. Was she not justified by what she did, when she entertained the scouts and got them away by a different road?

For as the body without the breath of life is dead, so faith is dead without deeds.

We put bridles into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, and so, you see, we can move the whole of their bodies.

So the tongue is a small member of the body, but it can boast of great exploits. What a forest is set ablaze by a little spark of fire!

With the tongue we bless the Lord and Father, and with the tongue we curse men made in God's likeness;

and the peacemakers who sow in peace reap righteousness.

(Wanton creatures! do you not know that the world's friendship means enmity to God? Whoever, then, chooses to be the world's friend, turns enemy to God.

Come now, you who say, "To-day or to-morrow we are going to such and such a city; we shall spend a year there trading and making money" ??14 you who know nothing about to-morrow! For what is your life? You are but a mist, which appears for a little and then vanishes.

You ought rather to say, "If the Lord will, we shall live to do this or that."

See, the wages of which you have defrauded the workmen who mowed your fields call out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

Be patient, then, brothers, till the arrival of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious crop of the land, biding his time patiently till he gets the autumn and the spring rains;

See, we call the stedfast happy; you have heard of the stedfastness of Job, and you have seen the end of the Lord with him, seen that the Lord is very compassionate and pitiful.

So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed; the prayers of the righteous have a powerful effect.