For let not that man think that he will receive anything from the Lord,

Let no one being tempted say, I am tempted from God. For God can not be tempted with evils, and he tempts no one:

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of change.

Pure religion and undefiled with God even the Father is this, to relieve the orphans and widows in their affliction, and keep himself unspotted from the world.

But one will say, You have faith, and I have works: Show me your faith apart from works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

Do you wish to know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is inefficient?

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith also apart from works is dead.

The tongue, a fire, the world of iniquity: the tongue sits down in the midst of our members, and corrupting the whole body, and setting on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire from hell.

This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but it is earthly, intellectual, and demoniacal.

But the wisdom which is from above is indeed first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily persuaded, full of mercy and of good works, free from partiality and hypocrisy.

Whence come wars and whence come battles within you? are they not from thence, from your pleasures warring in your members?

Therefore draw nigh unto God; and resist the devil, and he will flee from you:

My brethren, if any one among you may err from the truth, and one may turn him back;

let him know, that the one having turned a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and hide a multitude of sins.