Of his own choice he produced us by the word of truth, that we might be a sort of first fruit of his creatures.??19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.

Wherefore laying aside all vicious pollution, and the abundance of iniquity, receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which hath power to save your souls.

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves by false reasoning.

For if any man be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man that looks at his natural face in a glass;

For he that said, Thou shalt not commit adultery, said also, Thou shalt not commit murder. Now if thou dost not commit adultery, yet dost commit murder, thou art a transgressor of the law.

For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, he is a perfect man, and capable of reining in the whole body.

Traduce not one another, brethren. He that traduceth his brother, and judgeth his brother, traduceth the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but as judge.

There is one lawgiver, who can save or destroy: who art thou that judgest another man?