No one should think when he is tempted that his temptation comes from God, for God is incapable of being tempted by what is evil, and he does not tempt anyone.

and then goes off and immediately forgets what he looked like.

But whoever looks at the faultless law that makes men free and keeps looking, so that he does not just listen and forget, but obeys and acts upon it, will be blessed in what he does.

My brothers, what is the good of a man's saying he has faith, if he has no good deeds to show? Can faith save him?

and one of you says to them, "Goodbye, keep warm and have plenty to eat," without giving them the necessaries of life, what good does it do?

For we all make many mistakes. Anyone who never makes a mistake in what he says has a character that is fully developed and is able to control his whole body as well.

So the tongue is a little organ and yet very boastful. What a great forest a spark will set on fire!

What wise, intelligent man is there among you? Let him show by his good life that what he does is done in the humility of wisdom.

What causes wars and fights among you? Is it not your cravings, which are at war within your bodies?

when you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow! You are just a mist, which appears for a little while and then disappears.

So when a man knows what is right and fails to do it, he is guilty of sin.

Why, we call those who showed such endurance happy! You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen what the Lord brought out of it, for the Lord is very kind and merciful.