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

And let endurance have [its] perfect effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking in nothing.

For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;

Blessed [is] the person who endures testing, because [when he] is approved he will receive the crown of life that he has promised to those who love him.

[By his] will he gave birth to us through the message of truth, so that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

Listen, my dear brothers! Did not God choose the poor of the world [to be] rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?

What [is] the benefit, my brothers, if someone says [that he] has faith but does not have works? That faith [is] not able to save him, [is it]?

You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe, and shudder!

But do you want to know, O foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?

You see that faith was working together with his works, and by the works the faith was perfected.

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

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

Not many should become teachers, my brothers, [because you] know that we will receive a greater judgment.

And if we put bits in the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we also guide their whole bodies.

This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but [is] earthly, unspiritual, demonic.

From where [are] conflicts and from where [are] quarrels among you? [Is it] not from this, from your pleasures that wage war among your members?

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

Adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes [himself] an enemy of God.

Or do you think that in vain the scripture says, "The spirit which he caused to dwell in us desires jealously"?

you who do not know {what will happen tomorrow}, {what your life will be like}. For you are a smoky vapor that appears for a short time and then disappears.

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

Come now, you rich people, weep [and] cry aloud over the miseries that are coming upon you!

Behold, the wages that were held back by you from the workers who reap your fields cry out, and the cries of the reapers have come to the ears of the Lord of hosts.

Brothers, do not complain against one another, in order that you may not be judged. Behold, the judge stands before the doors!

Behold, we consider blessed those who have endured. You have heard about the patient endurance of Job, and you saw the outcome from the Lord, that the Lord is compassionate and merciful.

Now above all, my brothers, do not swear either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your yes be yes and your no, no, in order that you may not fall under judgment.

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

he should know that the one who turns a sinner back from the error of his way will save that person's soul from death, and will cover over a great number of sins.