knowing that the trial of your faith produces patience.

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

But let him ask in faith, not doubting; for he that doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind and agitated.

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

But let the brother that is humble rejoice in his exaltation,

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

But he that looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, not being a forgetful hearer but a doer of work, he shall be blessed in his doing.

But if any one among you thinks he is religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his mind, that man's religion is vain.

For he that said, You shall not commit adultery, said also, You shall not kill; and if you do not commit adultery, but kill, you are a transgressor of the law.

You believe that there is one God? You do well; demons also believe and tremble.

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

You see that faith cooperated with his works, and by works was faith made perfect,

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

BE not many of you teachers, my brothers, knowing that we shall receive a severer judgment.

But we put bits into the mouths of horses that they may obey us, and direct their whole body;

Whence come wars and contentions among you? Come they not thence, from your pleasures that war in your members?

Adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity against God? Whoever therefore wishes to be a friend of the world, is made an enemy of God.

Or do you suppose that the Scripture says in vain, The spirit which dwells in us desires to envy?

Speak not one against one another, brothers. He that speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against 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 law-giver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you that judge a neighbor?

Come now, you that say, To-day and to-morrow we will go to such a city and engage in business there a year, and trade and make profits,

who know not what will be on the morrow; for what is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes away;

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

He therefore that knows how to do good and does it not, to him it is sin.

Complain not, brothers, against one another, that you be not judged; behold, the judge stands before the doors.

Behold, we account them blessed who are patient. You have heard of the patience of Job, and you know the purpose of the Lord, that he is very merciful and compassionate.

Above all things, my brothers, swear not, neither by heaven, nor the earth, nor any other oath. But let your yes be yes, and your no, no, that you may not fall under condemnation.

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be cured, for the prayer of the righteous operates with great power.

Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed that it might not rain, and it rained not on the land for three years and six months;

let him know that he who converts a sinner from an error of [his] way, shall save a soul from death, and hide a multitude of sins.