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.

Look at ships too: Though they are so large and driven by harsh winds, they are steered by a tiny rudder wherever the pilot’s inclination directs.

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.

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?

because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

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?

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, because you know that we will be judged more strictly.

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

For the sun rises with its heat and dries up the meadow; the petal of the flower falls off and its beauty is lost forever. So also the rich person in the midst of his pursuits will wither away.

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

Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.

My brothers and sisters, do not show prejudice if you possess faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.

For the one who obeys the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.

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

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

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”?

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

My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,