for man's anger performs not God's righteousness.

For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man perceiving his natural face in a glass;

for he perceived himself, and went away, and immediately forgot what kind of a man he was.

For if there comes into your assembly a man with a gold ring, in splendid clothing, and there also comes in a poor man in vile clothing,

For whoever shall keep the whole law, and offend in one point, is guilty of all.

For he that said, You shall not commit adultery, said also, You shall not kill; and if you do not commit adultery, but kill, you are a transgressor of the law.

For he shall have judgment without mercy who shows not mercy; mercy rejoices over judgment.

and one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warmed and be filled, but gives them not the necessary supplies for the body, what is the profit?

For as the body without a spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

For in many things we all offend; if one offends not in word he is a perfect man, able to keep in subjection also the whole body.

so also the tongue is a small member and boasts of great things. Behold, how much wood a little fire kindles!

And the tongue is a fire, the tongue is made a world of wickedness among our members, it defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of nature and is set on fire by hell.

For every kind of beasts, and birds, and reptiles, and fishes, is tamed and has been tamed by the human race,

For where envy and strife are, there are disorder and every evil work.

who know not what will be on the morrow; for what is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes away;

for you ought to say, If the Lord wills, we shall both live and do this or that.

Come now, rich men, weep and lament for the miseries which are coming upon you.

your gold and silver are destroyed with rust, and their rust will be a witness against you, and consume your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasures for the last days.

Wait patiently therefore, brothers, till the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and is of long patience, till he receives the autumnal and vernal rain.

Do you also have long patience, confirm your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

if any one is sick among you, let him send for the elders of the church, and let them pray for him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be cured, for the prayer of the righteous operates with great power.

Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed that it might not rain, and it rained not on the land for three years and six months;

to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and unfading, kept in heaven for you

In which you rejoice, though now for a little while if need be made sad by manifold trials,

that the trial of your faith, which is much more precious than gold that is destroyed but proved by fire, may be found to praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

Wherefore, girding up the loins of your minds, be sober, and hope to the end for the gift to be brought to you by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

because it is written, Be you holy, for I am holy.

And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each one's work, spend the time of your life with fear,

who was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but made manifest in these last times for you,

For all flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass has withered, and its flower fell off;

for it is said in the Scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, elect, precious, and he that believes on him shall not be ashamed.

Be subject therefore to every human government, for the Lord's sake, whether to the king, as superior,

to governors, sent by him for the punishment of evil doers and the praise of those who do well;

for this is the will of God, that by well-doing you may silence the ignorance of foolish men;

as free, and not using freedom for a cloak of vice, but as servants of God.

Honor all men, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.

Let servants be subject with all fear to masters, not only to the good and gentle but also to the perverse.

For this deserves thanks, if on account of a knowledge of God one endures pain, suffering unjustly.

For what glory is it if when you sin and are punished you bear it patiently? But if you do well and suffer and bear it patiently, [this deserves thanks], for it is acceptable to God.

For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you a copy that you should follow his steps,

For you were like lost sheep, but are now returned to the shepherd and bishop of your souls.

seeing your pure mode of life in the fear [of God].

For so formerly also the holy women who hoped in God adorned themselves, being subject to their husbands,

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord, whose children you are, doing good and having no fear.

not returning evil for evil or railing for railing, but on the contrary blessing [your enemies], because to this you are called, that you may inherit blessing.

For he that will love life and see good days, let him withhold his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit,

for the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears attend to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

But even if you suffer on account of righteousness, you are blessed. But fear not with their fear, neither be troubled;

and sanctify the anointed Lord in your hearts, and be always ready with a defense to every one that asks you a reason for the hope that is in you; but with meekness and fear,

For it is better to suffer doing good, if the will of God allows, than doing evil.

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might lead us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,

Christ therefore having suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

For the time past is sufficient for us to have performed the will of the gentiles, walking in lewdness, inordinate desires, drunkenness, revellings, drinkings and unlawful idolatries,

And for this cause was the gospel preached also to the dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the Spirit.

above all things have fervent love one for another, for love hides a multitude of sins.

If any one speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God, if any one serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the power for ever and ever; amen.

If you are reproached for the name of Christ, happy are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.

For it is time for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it first begins with us, what will the end be of those that obey not the gospel of God?

feed the flock of God which is among you, not by constraint but willingly, not for base gain but of a ready mind,

Let the younger in like manner be subject to the elder, and do you all be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility; for God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.

casting all your care upon him, for he cares for you.

To him be the glory and the power for ever; amen.

and for the same purpose also, giving all diligence add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge,

For if these are in you and abound, they will make you not inactive nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;

for a man that is without these is blind, not seeing to a distance, and has forgotten the purification from his former errors.

Wherefore, brothers, use the greater diligence to make your calling and election sure; for doing these things you shall never fall.

For thus shall you have an abundant entrance given you into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

For we did not follow skilfully constructed myths in making known to you the power and appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye witnesses of his majesty.

For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when this voice was brought to him from the magnificent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

For prophecy was never brought by the will of man, but moved by the Holy Spirit men spoke from God,

For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but plunging them into Tartarus delivered them up in chains to be kept in darkness till the judgment,

and delivered righteous Lot, vexed by the lewd conduct of the wicked;??8 for that righteous man living among them vexed his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their wicked deeds;??9 the Lord knows how to deliver the pious from trial, and to keep the wicked to the day of judgment to be punished,

but especially those who walk after the flesh, in corrupt desires, and despise goverment. Presumptuous, self-complacent, they fear not to revile glories,

For speaking extravagant words of vanity, they entice with carnal desires of lewdness those scarcely escaped from them, those living in error,

promising them liberty, when they themselves are servants of corruption; for by whatever a man is overcome, to this is he made a servant.

For if having escaped the defilements of the world by a knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled and overcome by them, the last state of those persons is worse than the first.

For it is better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, having known, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.

and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the world.

For of this they are willingly ignorant, that the heavens were of old, and the earth was made of water and by water by the word of God,

But the present heavens and the earth have been preserved by his word, being kept for fire, at the day of the judgment and destruction of wicked men.

But we, according to his promise, look for a new heaven and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.

Wherefore, beloved, looking for these things, be diligent that you may be found in him without a spot and blemish, in peace,

and he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but for all the world.

for all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

And the world passes away, and its desires; but he that does the will of God continues for ever.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us they would have continued with us; but [they went out from us] that they might be manifest that they are not all of us.

Beloved, now are we children of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be. We know, that if he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

he that commits sin is of the devil, for the devil sinned from the beginning. For this was the Son of God manifested, to destroy the works of the devil.

No one that has been born of God commits sin, for his seed continues in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning; that we should love one another;

By this we have known love, because he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

for if our minds condemn us, God is greater than our minds and knows all things.

BELOVED, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits whether they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and every one that loves has been born of God and knows God.

He that loves not has not known God; for God is love.

In this is love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.

And we have known and believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he that continues in love continues in God and God in him.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has pain; and he that is afraid is not made perfect in love.