For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord,

Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am being tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and he himself does not tempt anyone.

Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren.

for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves.

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror;

But one who looks intently into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but a doer that acts, this man will be blessed in what he does.

If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is worthless.

have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

Listen, my beloved brethren: has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him?

But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you? Is it not they who drag you into court?

Is it not they who blaspheme the honorable name by which you have been called?

For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," said also, "Do not murder." If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food,

and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that?

Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.

In the same way was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works, when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?

Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.

For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well.

From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brethren, this ought not to be so.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.

This wisdom is not such as comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.

What causes quarrels and fights among you? Is it not your passions that are at war in your members?

You desire and do not have; so you kill. And you covet and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Do not speak against one another, brethren. He who 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 of it.

Yet you do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.

You have condemned and put to death the righteous man; he does not resist you.

Do not grumble, brethren, against one another, that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door.

But above all, my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath, but let your yes be yes and your no be no, that you may not fall under condemnation.

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.