Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire!

How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth:

The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

For the man who has not these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having no memory of how he was made clean from his old sins.

But if a man has this world's goods, and sees that his brother is in need, and keeps his heart shut against his brother, how is it possible for the love of God to be in him?

If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen?

Now it is my purpose to put you in mind, though you once had knowledge of all these things, of how the Lord, having taken a people safely out of Egypt, later sent destruction on those who had no faith;

How they said to you, In the last days there will be men who, guided by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things.

I have knowledge of your troubles and how poor you are (but you have true wealth), and the evil words of those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are a Synagogue of Satan.

And they gave a great cry, saying, How long will it be, O Ruler, holy and true, before you take your place as judge and give punishment for our blood to those on the earth?