For human anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness.

You desire and you do not have; you murder and envy and you cannot obtain; you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask;

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

Do they not blaspheme the good name of the one you belong to?

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

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

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

And above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath. But let your “Yes” be yes and your “No” be no, so that you may not fall into judgment.

But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich oppressing you and dragging you into the courts?

Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?

And similarly, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another way?

From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. These things should not be so, my brothers and sisters.

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

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.

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.

For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a violator of the law.

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.

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?

You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.

Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain and there was no rain on the land for three years and six months!