James, the servant of God, and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sendeth greeting to the twelve tribes which are scattered here and there.

are ye not even partial in your selves, and have judged after evil thoughts?

Hearken, my dear beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world, which are rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he promised to them that love him?

But ye have despised the poor. Are not the rich they which oppress you: and they which draw you before judges?

But if ye regard one person more than another, ye commit sin, and are rebuked of the law as transgressors.

and one of you say unto them, "Depart in peace, God send you warmness and food," notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body: what helpeth it them?

Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the violence of the governor will:

All the natures of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and things of the sea, are meeked and tamed of the nature of man.

Therewith bless we God the father, and therewith curse we men which are made after the similitude of God.

Your riches is corrupt, your garments are motheaten.

Your gold and your silver are cankered, and the rust of them shall be a witness unto you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together in your last days.

Behold, the hire of the laborers which have reaped down your fields - which hire is of you kept back by fraud - crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped, are entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

Elijah was a man, mortal even as we are, and he prayed in his prayer, that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.