who hath of his own will begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures.

Laying aside therefore all filthiness, and excess of malice, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a mirror,

for He that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou do not commit adultery, but committest murder, thou art a transgressor of the law.

and if any offend not in word, he is a compleat man, able to manage also the whole body.

Speak not against one another, my brethren; he that speaketh against his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law; but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Now there is but one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou then that judgest another?