If any one of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask God who gives generously to everyone, and does not reproach one with it afterward, and he will give it to him.

Such a man must not expect to get anything from the Lord??8 an irresolute person like him, who is uncertain about everything he does.

No one should think when he is tempted that his temptation comes from God, for God is incapable of being tempted by what is evil, and he does not tempt anyone.

Do not be misled, my dear brothers.

for men's anger does not produce the uprightness God wishes.

Obey the message; do not merely listen to it, and deceive yourselves.

But whoever looks at the faultless law that makes men free and keeps looking, so that he does not just listen and forget, but obeys and acts upon it, will be blessed in what he does.

If anyone thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives himself, his religious observances are of no account.

have you not wavered and shown that your judgments are guided by base motives?

Listen, my dear brothers. Has not God chosen the world's poor to be rich in faith, and to possess the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?

But you humiliate the poor. Are not the rich your oppressors? Is it not they who drag you into court?

Is it not they who slander the noble name you bear?

For he who said, "You must not commit adultery," said also, "You must not commit murder." Now if you abstain from adultery, but commit murder, you are still a violator of the Law.

If some brother or sister has no clothes and has not food enough for a day,

Was not our forefather Abraham made upright for his good deeds, for offering his son Isaac on the altar?

You see a man is made upright by his good deeds and not simply by having faith.

Was not even Rahab the prostitute made upright for her good deeds, in entertaining the scouts and sending them off by a different road?

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.

Blessing and cursing issue from the same mouth! This is not right, my brothers.

But if you cherish bitter feelings of jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, do not pride yourselves on it and thus belie the truth.

Such wisdom does not come from above. It is earthly, animal, demon-like.

What causes wars and fights among you? Is it not your cravings, which are at war within your bodies?

You crave things, and cannot have them, and so you commit murder. You covet things, and cannot get them, and so you quarrel and fight. You do not have things because you do not ask for them.

You renegades! Do you not know that the friendship of the world means enmity with God? So whoever wishes to be the world's friend declares himself God's enemy.

Do not talk against one another, brothers. Whoever talks against a brother or condemns his brother talks against the Law, and condemns the Law. But if you condemn the Law you are not an observer of the Law but its judge.

when you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow! You are just a mist, which appears for a little while and then disappears.

Do not complain of one another, brothers, or you will be judged. The judge is standing right at the door!

Above all, my brothers, do not swear an oath, either by heaven or by the earth, or by anything else; let your "Yes" be a plain Yes, and your "No" a plain No, or you will fall under condemnation.

Elijah was a man like us, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and for three years and six months there was no rain in the land.