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

But there is only one who is lawgiver and judge &#8211; the one who is able to save and destroy. On the other hand, who are you to judge your neighbor?<n id="1" />p>

For he gazes at himself and then goes out and immediately forgets<n id="1" /> what sort of person he was.

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

Such<n id="1" /> wisdom does not come<n id="2" /> from above but is earthly, natural,<n id="3" /> demonic.

But as it is,<n id="1" /> you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

So whoever knows what is good to do<n id="1" /> and does not do it is guilty of sin.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God?<n id="1" /> So whoever decides to be the world&#8217;s friend makes himself God&#8217;s enemy.

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

By his sovereign plan he gave us birth<n id="1" /> through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.p>

You believe that God is one; well and good.<n id="1" /> Even the demons believe that &#8211; and tremble with fear.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">But would you like evidence,<n id="1" /> you empty fellow,<n id="2" /> that faith without works is useless?<n id="3" />

Let no one say when he is tempted, &#8220;I am tempted by God,&#8221; for God cannot be tempted by evil,<n id="1" /> and he himself tempts no one.

All generous giving and every perfect gift<n id="1" /> is from above, coming down<n id="2" /> from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or the slightest hint of change.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters!<n id="1" /> Let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.

For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone<n id="1" /> who gazes at his own face<n id="2" /> in a mirror.

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

Look at ships too: Though they are so large and driven by harsh winds, they are steered by a tiny rudder wherever the pilot&#8217;s inclination directs.

So too the tongue is a small part of the body,<n id="1" /> yet it has great pretensions.<n id="2" /> Think<n id="3" /> how small a flame sets a huge forest ablaze.

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, accommodating,<n id="1" /> full of mercy and good fruit,<n id="2" /> impartial, and not hypocritical.<n id="3" />