That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.

No one undergoing a trial should say, “I am being tempted by God.” For God is not tempted by evil, and He Himself doesn’t tempt anyone.

for man’s anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness.

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

Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his own face in a mirror.

But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but one who does good works—this person will be blessed in what he does.

For He who said, Do not commit adultery, also said, Do not murder. So if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you are a lawbreaker.

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can his faith save him?

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

Not many should become teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive a stricter judgment,

for we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a mature man who is also able to control his whole body.

Praising and cursing come out of the same mouth. My brothers, these things should not be this way.

Such wisdom does not come from above but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.

You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask.

Adulteresses! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the world’s friend becomes God’s enemy.

Don’t criticize one another, brothers. He who criticizes a brother or judges his brother criticizes the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

You have condemned—you have murdered—the righteous man; he does not resist you.

Brothers, do not complain about one another, so that you will not be judged. Look, the judge stands at the door!

Now above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath. Your “yes” must be “yes,” and your “no” must be “no,” so that you won’t fall under judgment.

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