And if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask it of God, who giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him.

Let not that man think that he shall receive any thing from the Lord.

Be not therefore deceived, my beloved brethren: for every good gift,

for the wrath of man doth not practise the righteousness of God.

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

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

But he that looketh well into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

If any among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his heart, this man's devotion is vain.

My brethren, hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, in a partial respect of persons.

do ye not make a partial difference within yourselves, and become judges that reason wickedly?

Hear, my beloved brethren; hath not God chosen the poor of this world who are rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which He hath promised to them that love Him? but ye have slighted the poor.

Do not the rich tyrannize over you; and drag you to their tribunals?

Do they not blaspheme the glorious name by which ye are called?

for He that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou do not commit adultery, but committest murder, thou art a transgressor of the law.

For he shall have judgement without mercy, that hath not shewn mercy: but mercy triumpheth over judgement.

What is the advantage, my brethren, if any one say that he has faith, and he hath not works, can faith alone save him?

and one of you say to them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and be ye filled: but ye give them not the necessaries of life, what profit is it to them?

so faith, if it have not works, being alone, is dead.

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

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

And in like manner also was not the harlot Rahab justified by works, when she entertained the spies, and let them out another way?

My brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we who are such shall pass a stricter trial than others: for in many things we all offend;

and if any offend not in word, he is a compleat man, able to manage also the whole body.

out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. These things, my brethren, ought not so to be.

but if ye have bitter envy and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth;

this is not the wisdom, that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and diabolical:

Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence? even of your carnal appetites making war in your bodies?

Ye desire, and ye have not: ye are envious, and jealous, and cannot obtain: ye fight and contend; but ye have not, because ye ask not.

Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask wickedly; that ye may spend it in your pleasures.

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

Speak not against one another, my brethren; he that speaketh against his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law; but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

(though ye know not what will be on the morrow; for what is your life? a vapor, which appeareth for a little while, and then vanisheth away:) whereas ye ought to say,

To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doth it not, to him it is sin.

Ye have condemned, ye have murdered the just one, who resisted you not.

Repine not, my brethren, against each other, that ye be not condemned: behold, the judge is at the door.

But above all, my brethren, swear not; neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your nay nay; that ye may not fall under condemnation.

Elias was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained not upon the land for three years and six months: