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

For if someone comes into your assembly wearing a gold ring and fine clothing, and a poor person enters in filthy clothes,

Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct he should show his works done in the gentleness that wisdom brings.

With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse people made in God’s image.

Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you?

Is anyone among you ill? He should summon the elders of the church, and they should pray for him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord.

Now the believer of humble means should take pride in his high position.

But the rich person’s pride should be in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a wildflower in the meadow.

If so, have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil motives?

And the fruit that consists of righteousness is planted in peace among those who make peace.

But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

Is anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone in good spirits? He should sing praises.

From James, a slave of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes dispersed abroad. Greetings!

And let endurance have its perfect effect, so that you will be perfect and complete, not deficient in anything.

But he must ask in faith without doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed around by the wind.

My brothers and sisters, do not show prejudice if you possess faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.

For the one who obeys the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.

you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.

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

You have lived indulgently and luxuriously on the earth. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.