and you pay special attention to the one who wears the fine clothes, and say to him, “You sit here in this good seat,” and you tell the poor man, “You stand over there, or sit down [on the floor] by my footstool,”

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.

For where envy and contention dwell, there is tumult and every vile deed.

Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?

Toil, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and joy to dejection.

and yet cannot tell what shall happen tomorrow. For what thing is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

I tell you that the pay of the labourers who have gathered in your crops--pay which you are keeping back--is calling out against you; and the outcries of those who have been your reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of the armies of Heaven.

Have patience, therefore, brethren, till the coming of the Lord. Behold, the labourer awaits the precious fruit of the earth, having patience for it until it receive the early and the latter rain.

Do not cry out in condemnation of one another, brethren, lest you come under judgement. I tell you that the Judge is standing at the door.

So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be cured. An upright man can do a great deal by prayer when he tries.