But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich exploiting you and they themselves dragging you into the courts?

However, if you carry out the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.

But if you show partiality, you commit sin, [and thus] are convicted by the law as transgressors.

Thus speak and thus act as those who are going to be judged by the law of liberty.

Behold also ships: [although they] are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the inclination of the pilot wishes.

With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.

From where [are] conflicts and from where [are] quarrels among you? [Is it] not from this, from your pleasures that wage war among your members?

You desire and do not have; you murder and are filled with envy, and are not able to obtain; you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.

Do not speak evil of one another, brothers. The one who speaks evil of a brother or judges his brother speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge [of the law].

There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?

you who do not know {what will happen tomorrow}, {what your life will be like}. For you are a smoky vapor that appears for a short time and then disappears.

Come now, you rich people, weep [and] cry aloud over the miseries that are coming upon you!