Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you?

Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?

Such wisdom does not come from above but is earthly, natural, demonic.

If someone thinks he is religious yet does not bridle his tongue, and so deceives his heart, his religion is futile.

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?

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

But if you show prejudice, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as violators.

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

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

Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain and there was no rain on the land for three years and six months!

since he is a double-minded individual, unstable in all his ways.

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

Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.

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

For we all stumble in many ways. If someone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect individual, able to control the entire body as well.

But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.”

Your gold and silver have rusted and their rust will be a witness against you. It will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have hoarded treasure!

And above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath. But let your “Yes” be yes and your “No” be no, so that you may not fall into judgment.

For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord,