Knowing this, that the trying of your faith works patience.

But let patience have her perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord.

Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:

But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

Blessed is the man that endures trial: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them that love him.

Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

And you have respect to him that wears the fine clothing, and say unto him, Sit here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand there, or sit here under my footstool:

Hearken, my beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to them that love him?

Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by which you are called?

For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if you commit no adultery, yet you kill, you are become a transgressor of the law.

So speak, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has showed no mercy; and mercy triumphs over judgment.

You believe that there is one God; you do well: the demons also believe, and tremble.

But will you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

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

My brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the severer judgment.

Behold, we put bits in 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: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by them that make peace.

From where come wars and fightings among you? come they not from here, even of your lusts that war in your members?

You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it upon your lusts.

You adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

Do you think that the scripture says in vain, The spirit that dwells in us lusts to envy?

Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaks evil of his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law, and judges the law: but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who are you that judge another?

Come now, you that say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

Whereas you know not what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

For you ought to say, If the Lord wills, we shall live, and do this, or that.

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

Come now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

Behold, we count them happy who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very compassionate, and of tender mercy.

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months.

Let him know, that he who converts the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.