knowing that the proving of your faith establishes patience.

And let patience have a perfect work; that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;

Having willed it, He brought us forth with a word of truth, that we might be a certain first-fruit of His creatures.

If anyone thinks that he is religious, while he bridles not his own tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder!

But are you willing to know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is worthless?

You see that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith perfected;

Ye see that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

My brethren, become not many of you teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater judgment.

Now, if we put the horses' bridles into their mouths, that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also.

And the tongue is a fire, the world of iniquity! the tongue is placed among our members, as that which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of life, and is set on fire by Hell.

This wisdom is not the wisdom that comes down from above; but is earthly, soulish, demoniacal!

Whence are wars, and whence are battles among you? Are they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it on your pleasures.

Adulteresses! know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever, therefore, purposes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Or do ye think that the Scripture says in vain, "The spirit that dwells in us has jealous longings?"

Speak not one against another, brethren. 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.

One is Law-giver and Judge??e Who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you, that judge your neighbor?

(ye who, indeed, know nothing of to-morrow! what is your life? for ye are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away);

instead of your saying, "If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that."

Come now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you!

Murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye be not judged: behold, The Judge has taken His stand before the doors!

Behold, we pronounce those happy who endured: ye heard of the patience of Job; and ye saw the end of the Lord, that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful.

But above all things, my brethren, swear not, either by Heaven, or by earth, or by any other oath; but let yours be "the yes, yes," and "the no, no"; that ye fall not under condemnation.

Confess, therefore, your sins one to another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. A righteous man's inwrought supplication avails much.

Elijah was a man of like nature with us; 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 converted a sinner from the error of his way, will save a soul from death, and cover a multitude of sins.