So too the tongue is a small part of the body, yet it has great pretensions. Think how small a flame sets a huge forest ablaze.

With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse people made in God’s image.

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

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?

Think of how we regard as blessed those who have endured. You have heard of Job’s endurance and you have seen the Lord’s purpose, that the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick and the Lord will raise him up – and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

But each one is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desires.

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

If so, have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil motives?

Speak and act as those who will be judged by a law that gives freedom.

If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacks daily food,

So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.

You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

A spring does not pour out fresh water and bitter water from the same opening, does it?

So submit to God. But resist the devil and he will flee from you.

So whoever knows what is good to do and does not do it is guilty of sin.

Your riches have rotted and your clothing has become moth-eaten.

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”?

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.