Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

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?

But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith without works and I will show you faith by my works.

By his sovereign plan he gave us birth through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.

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

You see that his faith was working together with his works and his faith was perfected by works.

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.

And if we put bits into the mouths of horses to get them to obey us, then we guide their entire bodies.

Do not grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be judged. See, the judge stands before the gates!