\v 5 But if any of you needs wisdom, let him ask for it from God, the one who gives generously and without rebuke to all who ask, and he will give it to him.
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\v 6 But let him ask in faith, doubting nothing. For anyone who doubts is like a wave in the sea that is driven by the wind and tossed around.
\v 10 but the rich man of his low position, because he will pass away as a wild flower in the grass.
\v 11 For the sun rises with burning heat and dries up the grass. The flower falls off, and its beauty perishes. In the same way, the rich man will fade away in the middle of his journey.
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\v 12 Blessed is the man who endures testing. For after he has passed the test, he will receive the crown of life, which has been promised to those who love God.
\v 13 Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," because God is not tempted by evil, nor does he himself tempt anyone.
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\v 14 But each person is tempted by his own desire, which drags him away and entices him.
\v 15 Then after the desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and after the sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.
\v 16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.
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\v 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above. It comes down from the Father of lights. With him there is no changing or shadow because of turning.
\v 18 God chose to give us birth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all the things that he created.
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\v 19 You know this, my beloved brothers: Let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger.
\v 21 Therefore take off all sinful filth and abundant amounts of evil. In humility receive the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
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\v 22 Be doers of the word and not only hearers, deceiving yourselves.
\v 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word but not a doer, he is like a man who examines his natural face in a mirror.
\v 24 He examines himself and then goes away and immediately forgets what he was like.
\v 25 But the person who looks carefully into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so, not just being a hearer who forgets, this man will be blessed in his actions.
\v 27 Religion that is pure and unspoiled before our God and Father is to help the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
\v 3 If you look at the person wearing fine clothes and say, "You sit here in a good place," but you say to the poor man, "You stand over there" or "Sit by my footstool,"
\v 4 are you not judging among yourselves? Have you not become judges with evil thoughts?
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\v 5 Listen, my beloved brothers, did not God choose the poor of the world to be rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?
\v 6 But you have dishonored the poor! Is it not the rich who oppress you? Are they not the ones who drag you to court?
\v 7 Do they not insult the good name by which you have been called?
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\v 8 If, however, you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.
\v 11 For the one who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not murder." If you do not commit adultery, but if you do commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
\v 16 Suppose that one of you says to them, "Go in peace, stay warm and be filled." If you do not give them the things necessary for the body, what profit is that?
\v 20 Do you want to know, foolish man, that faith without works is useless? \f + \ft Some important and ancient Greek copies read, \fqa Do you want to know, foolish man, how it is that faith without works is dead? \fqa* \f*
\v 2 For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in words, he is a perfect man, able to control even his whole body.
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\v 3 Now if we put bits into horses' mouths for them to obey us, we can also direct their whole bodies.
\v 4 Notice also that ships, although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, are steered by a very small rudder to wherever the pilot desires.
\v 6 The tongue is also a fire, a world of evil set among our members. The tongue defiles the whole body, sets on fire the course of life, and is itself set on fire by hell.
\v 1 Where do quarrels and disputes among you come from? Do they not come from your desires that fight among your members?
\v 2 You desire, and you do not have. You kill and covet, and you are not able to obtain. You fight and quarrel. You do not possess because you do not ask.
\v 4 You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility against God? So whoever desires to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
\v 11 Do not speak against one another, brothers. The person who speaks against a brother or judges his brother speaks against the law and judges the law. If you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
\v 12 Only one is the lawgiver and judge. He is the one who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you, you who judge your neighbor?
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\v 13 Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into this city, spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."
\v 14 Who knows what will happen tomorrow, and what is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then disappears.
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\v 15 Instead, you should say, "If the Lord wishes, we will live and do this or that."
\v 16 But now you are boasting about your arrogant plans. All such boasting is evil.
\v 17 So for anyone who knows to do good but does not do it, for him it is sin.
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\v 1 Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail because of the miseries coming on you.
\v 2 Your riches have rotted, and your clothes have become moth-eaten.
\v 3 Your gold and your silver have become tarnished and their rust will be a witness against you. It will consume your flesh like fire. You have stored up your treasure for the last days.
\v 4 Look, the wages you kept back from the laborers who mowed your fields is crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
\v 7 Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord's coming. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit from the ground and he is patient about it, until it receives the early and late rains.
\v 8 You, too, be patient. Make your hearts strong because the Lord's coming is near.
\v 10 Take an example, brothers, from the suffering and patience of the prophets, those who spoke in the name of the Lord.
\v 11 See, we regard those who endured as blessed. You have heard of the endurance of Job, and you know the purpose of the Lord, how he is very compassionate and merciful.
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\v 12 Above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by the earth, or by any other oath. Instead, let your "Yes" mean "Yes" and your "No" mean "No," so you do not fall under judgment.
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\v 13 Is anyone among you suffering hardship? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.
\v 14 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him. Let them anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord.
\v 15 The prayer of faith will heal the sick person, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, God will forgive him.
\v 16 So confess your sins to one another and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is very strong in its working.
\v 19 My brothers, if anyone among you strays from the truth, and someone brings him back,
\v 20 that person should know that whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save him from death and will cover over a great number of sins.
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