knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.

and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected;

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

In the same way, wasn't Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

Indeed, we put bits into the horses' mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?

Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

Don't grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won't be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

But above all things, my brothers, don't swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your "yes" be "yes," and your "no," "no;" so that you don't fall into hypocrisy.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months.

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.