Knowing that the trial of your faith works out endurance.

But let endurance have its perfect work, in order that you may be perfect and whole in every part, lacking in nothing.

But let him ask in faith, doubting as to nothing; for he that doubts is like unto a wave of the sea driven by the winds and tossed by the tempest.

For let not that man think that he will receive anything from the Lord,

Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be some first fruit of his creations.

But if any one seems to be religious, bridling not his own tongue, but deceiving his own heart, the religion of that man is vain.

For judgment is without mercy to him that shows no mercy; but mercy glorieth against judgment.

Do you believe that there is one God? you do well: the demons also believe and tremble.

Do you wish to know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is inefficient?

You see that faith wrought with his works, and by works the faith was made perfect;

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

Be ye not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive the greater judgment.

But if we put bridles into the mouths of the horses, that they may obey us; and we manage their whole body;

This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but it is earthly, intellectual, and demoniacal.

you ask, and you receive not, because you ask wickedly, that you may expend it in your pleasures.

O adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? Whosoever therefore may wish to be the friend of the world renders himself the enemy of God.

Whether do you think that the scripture says in vain, The spirit who dwells in us fights against envy?

Come now, ye who are saying, To-day or to-morrow we will go into that city, and abide there a year, and trade and accumulate:

whosoever do not know that which belongs to the morrow: for what is your life? For you are a vapor, appearing for a moment, and then vanishing away;

on the contrary you should say, If the Lord will, and we live, we will indeed do this, or that.

Therefore to him that knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.

Do not complain against one another, brethren, in order that you may not be judged: behold, the judge stands before the doors.

Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, in order that you may be healed: the inward working prayer of a righteous man avails much.

Elijah was a man of like suffering to us, and he prayed with prayer that it might not rain, and it rained not upon the earth during three years and six months;

let him know, that the one having turned a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and hide a multitude of sins.