Don’t be deceived, my dearly loved brothers.

Yet you dishonored that poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts?

Don’t they blaspheme the noble name that was pronounced over you at your baptism?

and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well,” but you don’t give them what the body needs, what good is it?

But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t brag and deny the truth.

What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from the cravings that are at war within you?

You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your evil desires.

Don’t criticize one another, brothers. He who criticizes a brother or judges his brother criticizes the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

You don’t even know what tomorrow will bring—what your life will be! For you are like smoke that appears for a little while, then vanishes.