knowing that the proof of your faith produceth patience.

But let patience have its work perfected, that ye may be perfect and complete, deficient in nothing.

For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing from the Lord.

Of his own choice he produced us by the word of truth, that we might be a sort of first fruit of his creatures.??19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.

For if any man be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man that looks at his natural face in a glass;

But he that looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and perseveres, this man not being a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, he shall be blessed in his practice.

Do they not blaspheme that honourable name by which ye are called?

For he that said, Thou shalt not commit adultery, said also, Thou shalt not commit murder. Now if thou dost not commit adultery, yet dost commit murder, thou art a transgressor of the law.

Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe and tremble.

But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith consummated.

Observe therefore that by works a man is justified, and not by faith merely.

MY brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall receive a severer judgment.

Behold, we put bits into the horses' mouths, that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body.

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: in such manner is the tongue placed among our members, that it defileth all the body, and setteth on fire the circle of nature; and is set on fire of hell.

Ye adulterers and adultresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity against God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is set down an enemy to God.

Think ye that the scripture saith without meaning, The spirit which dwelleth in you strongly urges to envy?

Traduce not one another, brethren. He that traduceth his brother, and judgeth his brother, traduceth the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but as judge.

There is one lawgiver, who can save or destroy: who art thou that judgest another man?

Come now, ye that talk, To-day or to-morrow we will go to such a town, and do business there during one year, and traffic, and make great profits:

Instead of your saying, If the Lord pleases, and we are alive, then we will do this or that thing.

But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your no, no; that ye fall not under condemnation.

Confess your offences one to another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. The energetic prayer of a righteous man is mightily prevalent.

Elias was a man of like feelings with us, and he prayed fervently that it should not rain; and there fell no rain on the earth during three years and six months.

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