You ought to say instead, “If the Lord is willing, then we will live and do this or that.”

For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord,

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Look at ships too: Though they are so large and driven by harsh winds, they are steered by a tiny rudder wherever the pilot’s inclination directs.

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”

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.

Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world.