For do not let that man think that he shall receive anything from the Lord;

he is a double-minded man, not dependable in all his ways.

Let no one being tempted say, I am tempted from God. For God is not tempted by evils, and He tempts no one.

Do not err, my beloved brothers.

For the wrath of man does not work out the righteousness of God.

But become doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

For if anyone is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man studying his natural face in a mirror.

But whoever looks into the perfect Law of liberty and continues in it, he is not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work. This one shall be blessed in his doing.

If anyone thinks to be religious among you, yet does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this one's religion is vain.

My brothers, do not have the faith of our Lord Christ, the Lord of glory, with respecter of faces.

Did you not make a difference among yourselves and became judges with evil thoughts?

Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He has promised to those who love Him?

But you dishonored the poor one. Do not rich men oppress you and draw you before the judgment seats?

Do they not blaspheme that worthy Name by which you are called?

For He who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not murder." But if you do not commit adultery, yet if you murder, you have become a transgressor of the Law.

My brothers, what profit is it if a man says he has faith and does not have works? Can faith save him?

and if one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warmed and filled, but you do not give them those things which are needful to the body, what good is it?

Even so, if it does not have works, faith is dead, being by itself.

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

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

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

My brothers, do not be many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.

For in many things we all offend. If anyone does not offend in word, the same is a full-grown man, able also to bridle the whole body.

Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

But if you have bitter jealousy and strife in your hearts, do not glory and lie against the truth.

This is not the wisdom coming down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

From where do wars and fightings among you come? Is it not from this, from your lusts which war in your members?

You desire, and do not have. You murder, and are jealous, and cannot obtain. You fight and war, yet you have not because you ask not.

You ask and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it upon your lusts.

Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever desires to be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

Do not speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against his brother, and who 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.

who do not know of the morrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapor, which appears for a little time, and then disappears.

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

You have condemned and murdered the just; he does not resist you.

Do not grudge against one another, brothers, lest you be condemned. Behold, the Judge stands before the door.

But before all things, my brothers, do not swear; neither by the heaven nor by the earth, nor any other oath. But let your yes be yes, and your no, no, lest you fall into condemnation.

Elijah was a man of like passion as we are. And he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for the time of three years and six months.