But he who looks carefully into the perfect Law, the Law of Freedom, and continues to do so, not listening to it and then forgetting it, but putting it into practice--that man will be blessed in what he does.

My Brothers, what is the good of a man's saying that he has faith, if he does not prove it by actions? Can such faith save him?

And one of you were to say to them--"Go, and peace be with you; find warmth and food for yourselves," and yet you were not to give them the necessaries of life, what good would it be to them?

What is the cause of the fighting and quarreling that goes on among you? Is not it to be found in the desires which are always at war within you?

You ask, yet do not receive, because you ask for a wrong purpose--to spend what you get upon your pleasures.

And yet you do not know what your life will be like to-morrow! For you are but a mist appearing for a little while and then disappearing.

He, then, who knows what is right but fails to do it--that is sin in him.

We count those who displayed such endurance blessed! You have heard, too, of Job's endurance, and have seen what the Lord's purpose was, for 'the Lord is full of pity and compassion.'