Speak and act as those who will be judged by a law that gives freedom.

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

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

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

So too the tongue is a small part of the body, yet it has great pretensions. Think how small a flame sets a huge forest ablaze.

For the sun rises with its heat and dries up the meadow; the petal of the flower falls off and its beauty is lost forever. So also the rich person in the midst of his pursuits will wither away.