For let not that man think that he will receive anything from the Lord,

Let no one being tempted say, I am tempted from God. For God can not be tempted with evils, and he tempts no one:

Be not deceived, my beloved brethren.

for the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God.

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

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

But the one having looked into the perfect law which is the law of liberty, and having remained in it, not being a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, he shall be happy in his work.

But if any one seems to be religious, bridling not his own tongue, but deceiving his own heart, the religion of that man is vain.

My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect to persons.

are you not condemned among yourselves, and have you not become the judges of evil reasonings?

Hear, my beloved brethren. Has not God chosen the poor in the world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him with divine love?

You have dishonored the poor. Do not the rich domineer over you, and drag you into courts?

Do they not blaspheme the good name which has been called upon you?

For the one saying, Thou shalt not commit adultery also said, Thou shalt not murder; but if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

But what is it profitable, my brethren, if one may say he has faith, but has not works? whether is faith able to save him?

and one of you may say to them, Go in peace, be ye warmed, and be ye fed; and give them not the necessaries of the body; what profit is it?

So indeed faith, if it may not have works, is dead, as to itself.

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

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

And likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, having received the spies, and sent them out by another way?

Be ye not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive the greater judgment.

For we all fail in many things; if any one fails not in word, the same is a perfect man, able even to bridle the whole body.

out of the same mouth come forth blessing and scolding. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

But if you have bitter envy and strife in your heart, do not boast, and lie against the truth.

This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but it is earthly, intellectual, and demoniacal.

Whence come wars and whence come battles within you? are they not from thence, from your pleasures warring in your members?

You lust, and you have not: you murder, and you strive, and you are not able to obtain: you fight and you war; and have not, because you do not ask:

you ask, and you receive not, because you ask wickedly, that you may expend it in your pleasures.

O adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? Whosoever therefore may wish to be the friend of the world renders himself the enemy of God.

Do not calumniate one another, brethren: the one speaking against his brother, and judging his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law: if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

whosoever do not know that which belongs to the morrow: for what is your life? For you are a vapor, appearing for a moment, and then vanishing away;

Therefore to him that knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.

Do not complain against one another, brethren, in order that you may not be judged: behold, the judge stands before the doors.

But, my brethren, before all, swear not, neither by heaven, or by earth, or any other oath: but let your conversation be yes yes; and no no; lest you may fall under condemnation.

Elijah was a man of like suffering to us, and he prayed with prayer that it might not rain, and it rained not upon the earth during three years and six months;