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

But you must let endurance have its full effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.

But he must ask in faith, without any doubts, for the one who has doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.

For the sun comes up with its scorching heat and dries up the grass. The flower in it drops off, and its beauty is gone. That is how the rich person will fade away in his pursuits.

How blessed is the man who endures temptation! When he has passed the test, he will receive the victor's crown of life that God has promised to those who keep on loving him.

When that desire becomes pregnant, it gives birth to sin; and when that sin grows up, it gives birth to death.

In accordance with his will he made us his children by the word of truth, so that we might become the most important of his creatures.

For human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

Therefore, rid yourselves of everything impure and every expression of wickedness, and with a gentle spirit welcome the word planted in you that can save your souls.

But the one who looks at the perfect law of freedom and remains committed to it thereby demonstrating that he is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of what that law requires will be blessed in what he does.

If anyone thinks that he is religious and does not bridle his tongue, but instead deceives himself, his religion is worthless.

A religion that is pure and stainless according to God the Father is this: to take care of orphans and widows who are suffering, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Listen, my dear brothers! God has chosen the poor in the world to become rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who keep on loving him, has he not?

You believe that there is one God. That's fine! Even the demons believe that and tremble with fear.

Do you want proof, you foolish person, that faith without actions is worthless?

You see that his faith worked together with what he did, and by his actions his faith was made complete.

And so the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness." And so he was called God's friend.

You observe that a person is justified through actions and not through faith alone.

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more severely than others.

And look at ships! They are so big that it takes strong winds to drive them, yet they are steered by a tiny rudder wherever the helmsman directs.

Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show by his noble conduct that his actions are done humbly and wisely.

That kind of wisdom does not come from above. No, it is worldly, self-centered, and demonic.

However, the wisdom that comes from above is first of all pure, then peace-loving, gentle, willing to yield, full of compassion and good deeds, and without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy.

Where do those fights and quarrels among you come from? They come from your selfish desires that are at war in your bodies, don't they?

You adulterers! Don't you know that friendship with the world means hostility with God? So whoever wants to be a friend of this world is an enemy of God.

Or do you think the Scripture means nothing when it says that the Spirit that God caused to live in us jealously yearns for us?

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

Instead you should say, "If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that."

Now listen, you rich people! Cry and moan over the miseries that are overtaking you.

Look! The wages that you kept back from the workers who harvested your fields are shouting out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of the Heavenly Armies.

We consider those who endured to be blessed. You have heard about Job's endurance and have seen the purpose of the Lord that the Lord is compassionate and merciful.

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

you may be sure that whoever brings a sinner back from his wrong path will save his soul from death and cover a multitude of sins.