If any among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his heart, this man's devotion is vain.

For if there come into your synagogue a man with a gold ring in fine clothes, and there come in also a poor man in a mean habit;

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:

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

Can a fig-tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine figs? so can no fountain produce salt water and sweet.

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