Don’t be deceived, my dearly loved brothers.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

Therefore, have done with all filthiness and whatever wickedness still remains, and in a humble spirit receive that Message which has been planted in your hearts and is able to save your souls.

Don't delusively content your selves with being of the audience, but put what you hear in practice:

My brothers, don't hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.

and you pay special attention to the one who is wearing the fine clothes, and say, “You sit here in a good place,” and you say to the poor man, “You stand over there, or sit down by my footstool,”

have not you made an arbitrary distinction, don't your judgments flow from a vicious principle?

Yet you dishonored that poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts?

Don’t they blaspheme the noble name that was pronounced over you at your baptism?

If you really fulfil the royal law laid down by scripture, You must love your neighbour as yourself, well and good;

for the judgment without kindness is to him not having done kindness, and exult doth kindness over judgment.

and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well,” but you don’t give them what the body needs, what good is it?

don't you see his actions and his faith conspir'd, and that his faith had its perfect effect in his conduct?

My brethren, don't affect many of you to be doctors, considering, that those of us who are such, shall be tried with the greater severity.

The tongue, a fire, the world of iniquity: the tongue sits down in the midst of our members, and corrupting the whole body, and setting on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire from hell.

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t brag and deny the truth.

This wisdom is not a wisdom that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from the cravings that are at war within you?

You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.

You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your evil desires.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Be bitterly afflicted and lament, and let your tears run down; let your laughter be converted into mourning, and your joy into dejection.

Cast down yourselves before the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

Don’t criticize one another, brothers. He who criticizes a brother or judges his brother criticizes the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth:

You don’t even know what tomorrow will bring—what your life will be! For you are like smoke that appears for a little while, then vanishes.

COME now, ye rich men, let your tears run down, howling over your miseries which are coming upon you.

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

Don't grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won't be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

But above all things, my brothers, don't swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your "yes" be "yes," and your "no," "no;" so that you don't fall into hypocrisy.

And by the prayer of faith the man who is ill will be made well, and he will be lifted up by the Lord, and for any sin which he has done he will have forgiveness.

Therefore, confess your sins to one another [your false steps, your offenses], and pray for one another, that you may be healed and restored. The heartfelt and persistent prayer of a righteous man (believer) can accomplish much [when put into action and made effective by God—it is dynamic and can have tremendous power].

And he made another prayer, and the heaven sent down rain and the earth gave her fruit.