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

But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.”

Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.

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 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.

And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Now Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend.

Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says, “The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning”?

do you pay attention to the one who is finely dressed and say, “You sit here in a good place,” and to the poor person, “You stand over there,” or “Sit on the floor”?

and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm and eat well,” but you do not give them what the body needs, what good is it?

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.

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith save him?

Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. He who speaks against a fellow believer or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge.

But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves.

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

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

Is anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone in good spirits? He should sing praises.

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.

Is anyone among you ill? He should summon the elders of the church, and they should pray for him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord.

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.

Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world’s friend makes himself God’s enemy.