knowing that the trying of your faith works patience.

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

For do not let that man think that he shall receive anything from the Lord;

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

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

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

My brothers, do not be many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.

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

But the wisdom that is from above is first truly pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

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

Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever desires to 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 yearns to envy?

Instead of you saying, If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.

Behold, we count blessed those who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and you have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is full of pity and of tender mercy.

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

Elijah was a man of like passion as we are. And he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for the time of three years and six months.

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