Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

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

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

Don't they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?

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 jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

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 for your pleasures.

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.

Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

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.