knowing this, that the trial of your faith worketh patience;

but let patience have it's perfect work, that ye may be entirely perfect, failing in nothing.

But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting; for he that doubteth is like a wave of the sea blown about and tossed by the wind.

Let not that man think that he shall receive any thing from the Lord.

Let the brother that is low rejoice in his exaltation: but the rich in his humiliation,

Happy is the man who sustaineth temptation; for being approved he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love Him.

Let no one that is tempted say, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted by evils, and He tempteth no one.

who hath of his own will begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures.

But he that looketh well into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

and ye turn your eyes toward him that weareth the fine clothes, and say to him, Sit thou here in an honorable place; and say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:

do ye not make a partial difference within yourselves, and become judges that reason wickedly?

Hear, my beloved brethren; hath not God chosen the poor of this world who are rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which He hath promised to them that love Him? but ye have slighted the poor.

for He that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou do not commit adultery, but committest murder, thou art a transgressor of the law.

For he shall have judgement without mercy, that hath not shewn mercy: but mercy triumpheth over judgement.

What is the advantage, my brethren, if any one say that he has faith, and he hath not works, can faith alone save him?

Thou believest that there is one God; thou dost well: the devils also believe and tremble.

But desirest thou to know, O vain man, that faith without works, is dead?

Thou seest that faith co-operated with his works, and that by his works his faith was perfected.

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

My brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we who are such shall pass a stricter trial than others: for in many things we all offend;

Behold we put bridles into the mouths of horses, that they may obey us, and we turn their whole body as we please.

this is not the wisdom, that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and diabolical:

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

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for those that promote peace.

Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask wickedly; that ye may spend it in your pleasures.

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

Do ye think the scripture speaks in vain? or does the Spirit that dwelleth in us, excite to envy?

Speak not against one another, my brethren; he that speaketh against his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law; but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Now there is but one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou then that judgest another?

Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go to such a city, and spend a year there, and trade and get gain;

If the Lord will, and we should live, and do this or that:

To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doth it not, to him it is sin.

Behold the hire of the laborers, that reaped your fields, of which they are defrauded by you, crieth out against you: and the complaints of the reapers are come into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

Repine not, my brethren, against each other, that ye be not condemned: behold, the judge is at the door.

Behold, we account those happy, that are patient. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.

But above all, my brethren, swear not; neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your nay nay; that ye may not fall under condemnation.

Confess your faults one to another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed: the fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

Elias was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained not upon the land for three years and six months:

let him know that he, who turneth back a sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.