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

But if you fulfill the royal law as expressed in this scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless?

And similarly, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another way?

For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

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

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

Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter into mourning and your joy into despair.

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

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

Concerning this salvation, the prophets who predicted the grace that would come to you searched and investigated carefully.

Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,

Live as free people, not using your freedom as a pretext for evil, but as God’s slaves.

For you were going astray like sheep but now you have turned back to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.

So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.

But if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but glorify God that you bear such a name.

May grace and peace be lavished on you as you grow in the rich knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord!

Indeed, I will also make every effort that, after my departure, you have a testimony of these things.

When this voice was conveyed from heaven, we ourselves heard it, for we were with him on the holy mountain.

These men are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm, for whom the utter depths of darkness have been reserved.