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.

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.

For he gazes at himself and then goes out and immediately forgets what sort of person he was.

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.

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.

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

Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud over the miseries that are coming on you.

As an example of suffering and patience, brothers and sisters, take the prophets who spoke in the Lord’s name.

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.”

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.

So be patient, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s return. Think of how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the ground and is patient for it until it receives the early and late rains.