Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters! Let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.

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?

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.

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

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and not hypocritical.

But there is only one who is lawgiver and judge – the one who is able to save and destroy. On the other hand, who are you to judge your neighbor?

You have not seen him, but you love him. You do not see him now but you believe in him, and so you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy,

So you who believe see his value, but for those who do not believe, the stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,

Do not return evil for evil or insult for insult, but instead bless others because you were called to inherit a blessing.

Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.

And, after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.

especially those who indulge their fleshly desires and who despise authority. Brazen and insolent, they are not afraid to insult the glorious ones,

But these men, like irrational animals – creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed – do not understand whom they are insulting, and consequently in their destruction they will be destroyed,

yet was rebuked for his own transgression (a dumb donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the prophet’s madness).

But by the same word the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire, by being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your notice, that a single day is like a thousand years with the Lord and a thousand years are like a single day.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the honor both now and on that eternal day.

and he himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for our sins but also for the whole world.

But whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him.