But if you do not experience discipline, something all sons have shared in, then you are illegitimate and are not sons.

and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but be healed.

Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, for without it no one will see the Lord.

So since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us give thanks, and through this let us offer worship pleasing to God in devotion and awe.

Remember those in prison as though you were in prison with them, and those ill-treated as though you too felt their torment.

Therefore, to sanctify the people by his own blood, Jesus also suffered outside the camp.

And do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for God is pleased with such sacrifices.

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, bear with my message of exhortation, for in fact I have written to you briefly.

Greetings to all your leaders and all the saints. Those from Italy send you greetings.

From James, a slave of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes dispersed abroad. Greetings!

And let endurance have its perfect effect, so that you will be perfect and complete, not deficient in anything.

But he must ask in faith without doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed around by the wind.

For if someone comes into your assembly wearing a gold ring and fine clothing, and a poor person enters in filthy clothes,

But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich oppressing you and dragging you into the courts?

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

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.

Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct he should show his works done in the gentleness that wisdom brings.

you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.

You have lived indulgently and luxuriously on the earth. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.