If any of you is forsaken of wisdom, let him ask of God, giving to all plainly, blaming not; and it shall be given him.

For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

Let none say being tempted, that I am tempted of God: for God is not tempted of evils, and he tempts none:

Be not led astray, my dearly beloved brethren.

Every good donation and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom not one change, or shadow of turning.

For man s anger works not the justice of God.

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

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

And he having stooped into the perfect law of liberty, and remained, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of work, he shall be happy in his doing.

If any among you seem to be religious, bridling not his tongue, but deceiving his heart, the religion of this one vain.

My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, of glory, with distinction of faces.

Were ye not separated among yourselves, and become judges of evil reflections?

Hear, my dearly beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the beggars of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to them loving him?

And ye have despised the beggar. Do not the rich bring you into subjection, and draw you before tribunals?

And do they not defame the good name called upon you?

For he having said, Thou shouldest not commit adultery, said also, Thou shouldest not kill: and if thou commit not adultery, and dost kill, thou hast become a transgressor of the law.

For unpropitiated judgment to him not doing mercy; and mercy boasteth against judgment.

And what profit, my brethren, if any say he has faith, and should not have works? can faith save him?

And any of you say to them, Retire in peace, be ye warmed and be ye fed; and ye give them not things fitting the body; what profit?

So also faith, if it have not works, is dead by itself.

Was not Abraham our father justified by works, having brought up Isaac his son upon the altar

Therefore ye see that man is justified from works, and not from faith alone.

And likewise also was not Rehab the harlot justified by works, having received the messengers, and cast out by another way?

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

For in many things we all stumble. If any stumble not in word, this a perfect man, able to govern by a bridle also the whole body.

Out of the same month comes forth blessing and cursing. There is no need, my brethren, for these things so to be.

And if ye have bitter envy and intrigue in your heart, boast not, and lie not against the truth.

This is wisdom coming not down from above, but earthly, natural, resembling an evil spirit.

And the wisdom from above is truly first pure, then peaceful, decorous, docile, full of mercy and good fruits, not separated, and unfeigned.

Whence wars and fights among you? are they not hence, out of your sensual pleasures making war in your members

Ye eagerly desire, and have not: ye kill, and are zealous, and cannot succeed: ye fight and wage war, and ye have not, because ye ask not.

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask wickedly that ye might expend upon your sensual pleasures.

Adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is the enmity of God? whoever therefore would wish to be the friend of the world is set the enemy of God.

Speak not against one another, brethren. He speaking against a brother, and judging his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law: and if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

(Which know not that of the morrow. For what your life? For it is a steam, appearing for a little, and then invisible.)

Therefore to him knowing to do good, and not doing, to him it is sin.

Ye have condemned, ye have killed the just one; and he resists you not.

Groan not against one another, brethren, that ye be not condemned: behold, the judge stands before the door.

And before all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by earth, nor any other oath: and let your yea be yea; and nay, nay; that ye fall not under. judgment.

Elias was a man having similar feelings with us, and in prayer he prayed for it not to rain: and it rained not upon the earth for three years and six months.