James

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?

Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

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

But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

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 governor listeth.

Behold, we put bits in the horses" mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.

For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?

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

And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.

Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?