You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder!

But are you willing to know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is worthless?

You see that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith perfected;

Ye see that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

My brethren, become not many of you teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater judgment.

Now, if we put the horses' bridles into their mouths, that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also.

And the tongue is a fire, the world of iniquity! the tongue is placed among our members, as that which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of life, and is set on fire by Hell.

This wisdom is not the wisdom that comes down from above; but is earthly, soulish, demoniacal!

Whence are wars, and whence are battles among you? Are they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it on your pleasures.

Adulteresses! know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever, therefore, purposes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Or do ye think that the Scripture says in vain, "The spirit that dwells in us has jealous longings?"

Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaks against a brother, or judges his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law; but, if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

One is Law-giver and Judge??e Who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you, that judge your neighbor?

(ye who, indeed, know nothing of to-morrow! what is your life? for ye are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away);

instead of your saying, "If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that."

Come now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you!

Murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye be not judged: behold, The Judge has taken His stand before the doors!

Behold, we pronounce those happy who endured: ye heard of the patience of Job; and ye saw the end of the Lord, that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful.

But above all things, my brethren, swear not, either by Heaven, or by earth, or by any other oath; but let yours be "the yes, yes," and "the no, no"; that ye fall not under condemnation.

Confess, therefore, your sins one to another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. A righteous man's inwrought supplication avails much.

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

let him know that he who converted a sinner from the error of his way, will save a soul from death, and cover a multitude of sins.

that the proving of your faith??eing much more precious than gold that perishes, but is proved through fire??ay be found unto praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

concerning which salvation the prophets earnestly sought and diligently searched, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you;

to whom it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to you they were ministering them; which things now were reported to you through those who proclaimed the Gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent forth from Heaven; into which things angels desire to look carefully.

knowing that, not with perishable things, with silver or gold, were ye redeemed from your vain course of life handed down from your fathers;

who through Him believe in God, Who raised Him from the dead, and gave Him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, through the word of God, that lives and abides.

as new-born babes, long ye for the spiritual, unadulterated milk, that thereby ye may grow unto salvation,

if ye tasted that the Lord is gracious;

But ye are "an elect race, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation," a people for a possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of Him Who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

having your conduct seemly among the gentiles; that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may, from your good works which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

for so is the will of God, that by well-doing ye should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men;

For to this were ye called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow His steps;

Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by Whose bruise ye were healed.

In like manner, ye wives, be subject to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they may, without the word, be gained through the conduct of their wives,

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with them according to knowledge, assigning honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

not returning evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but, on the contrary, blessing; because to this end ye were called, that ye might inherit a blessing.

And who is he that will harm you, if ye become zealous for that which is good?

but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts; ready always for an answer to every one who asks of you an account concerning the hope that is in you, yet with meekness and fear;

having a good conscience; that, in whatever ye are spoken against, those who revile your good conduct may be put to shame.

For it is better, if the will of God should will it, that ye suffer for well-doing, than for evil-doing;

because Christ also suffered for sins once, a Righteous One in behalf of the unrighteous, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

who were once disobedient, when the long-suffering of God was waiting in the days of Noah, while an ark was being prepared, entering into which, a few, that is, eight, souls were saved through water;

that ye no longer live the rest of your time in the flesh to the desires of men, but to the will of God.

For to this end was the Gospel proclaimed even to the dead, that they might, indeed, be judged according to men in flesh, but live according to God in spirit.

if anyone speaks, as uttering the oracles of God; if anyone ministers, ministering as of the strength which God supplieth; that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ; to Whom is the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

but, in so far as ye share in Christ's sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of His glory also ye may rejoice with exceeding joy.

If ye are reproached in Christ's name, happy are ye, because the Spirit of glory and that of God rests upon you.

Be humbled, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due season;

whom resist, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same kinds of sufferings are being accomplished in your brethren who are in the world.

Through Sylvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I wrote to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God; within which stand ye.

through which have been given to us very great and precious promises, that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world in lust:

knowing that speedy is the putting off of my tabernacle, as also our Lord Jesus Christ signified to me.

And I will also give diligence that at all times ye may be able, after my departure, to perpetuate the remembrance of these things.

knowing this, first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of one's own interpretation;

For, if God spared not angels that sinned, but, hurling them down to Hell, delivered them up to pits of darkness, kept for judgment;

having eyes full of lustfulness, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstable souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of a curse;

It has happened to them according to the true proverb, "A dog having returned to his own vomit"; and "A sow that was washed, to her wallowing in mire."

that ye remember the words spoken before by holy prophets, and the commandments of the Lord and Savior by your apostles.

Knowing this first, that there will come in the last days scoffers with scoffing, walking after their own desires,

For this escapes them willingly, that there were heavens of old, and an earth set together out of water, and through water, by the word of God:

through which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished;

But, beloved, let not this one thing escape you, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

The Lord is not slow respecting the promise, as some account slowness; but He is long-suffering toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Seeing, therefore, that all these things are thus to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conduct and godliness,

Wherefore, beloved, since ye are looking for these things, give diligence that ye be found in peace, without spot and blameless in His sight.

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we gazed upon, and our hands handled, concerning the Word of Life

that which we have seen and heard we declare to you also, that ye also may have fellow-ship with us; and our fellowship also is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ.

And these things we write, that your joy may be made full.

And this is the message which we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.

If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and are walking in the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth;

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin. And, if any one sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the Righteous.

And in this we know that we have known Him, if we keep His commandments.

but whosoever keeps His word, truly in him the love of God has been perfected: in this we know that we are in Him.

He who says that he is abiding in Him ought himself also to walk even as He walked.

He who says that he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.

He that loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him.

But he that hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and knows not where he is going, because the darkness blinded his eyes.

because all that is in the world??he desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the vain-glory of life??s not of the Father, but is of the world.

And the world is passing away, and the desire thereof; but be that does the will of God abides forever.

Little children, it is the last hour; and, as ye heard that Anti-Christ is coming, even now many anti-christs have arisen; whence we know that it is the last hour.

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

Who is the liar, but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Anti-Christ, he that denies the Father and the Son.

As for you, let that which ye heard from the beginning abide in you. If that which ye heard from the beginning abide in you, ye also shall abide in the Son and in the Father.

And the Anointing which ye received from Him abideth in you, and ye have no need that anyone teach you; but as His Anointing teacheth you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as He taught you, ye abide in Him.

And now, little children, abide in Him; that, if He shall be manifested, we may have confidence, and not be put away from Him with shame at His coming.

If ye know that He is righteous, ye know that every one that does righteousness has been begotten of Him.

Behold what manner of love the Father hath given to us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knows us not, because it knew Him not.

Beloved, now are we children of God, and never yet was it manifested what we shall be. We know that, if He shall be manifested, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.

And every one that has this hope on Him purifies himself, even as He is pure.

And ye know that He was manifested, that He might take away sins; and in Him is no sin.

Every one that is abiding in Him sins not; whosoever sins has not seen Him nor known Him.

Little children, let no one deceive you: he that does righteousness is righteous, even as He is righteous.

He that commits sin is of the Devil; because the Devil sins from the beginning. To this end was the Son of God manifested, that He might destroy the works of the Devil.

In this are manifest the children of God and the children of the Devil: every one that does not righteousness is not of God, neither he that does not love his brother;

because this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loves not abides in death.

Every one that hates his brother is a murderer; and ye know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.