For human anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness.

A spring does not pour out fresh water and bitter water from the same opening, does it?

You have condemned and murdered the righteous person, although he does not resist you.

So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.

Such wisdom does not come from above but is earthly, natural, demonic.

So whoever knows what is good to do and does not do it is guilty of sin.

But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there, and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out – he will be blessed in what he does.

If someone thinks he is religious yet does not bridle his tongue, and so deceives his heart, his religion is futile.

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith save him?

For we all stumble in many ways. If someone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect individual, able to control the entire body as well.

For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone who gazes at his own face in a mirror.

Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.

and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm and eat well,” but you do not give them what the body needs, what good is it?

You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

since he is a double-minded individual, unstable in all his ways.

But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless?

All generous giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or the slightest hint of change.

Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says, “The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning”?