for you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

But he must ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.

For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord,

Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, for when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

But one who looks intently into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but a doer that acts, this man will be blessed in what he does.

Religion that is pure and undefiled in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that?

You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believeand shudder.

But are you willing to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is useless?

You see that faith was working with his works, and faith was completed by works,

You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.

Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.

If we put bits into the mouths of horses that they may obey us, we guide their whole bodies.

What causes quarrels and fights among you? Is it not your passions that are at war in your members?

You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Or do you think that the Scripture says without reason: "He jealously desires the Spirit which he has made to dwell in us"?

Yet you do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

Instead, you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that."

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.

Do not grumble, brethren, against one another, that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door.

But above all, my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath, but let your yes be yes and your no be no, that you may not fall under condemnation.

Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.

let him know that whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.