You ought to say instead,<n id="1" /> &#8220;If the Lord is willing, then we will live and do this or that.&#8221;

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

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.

From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. These things should not be so, my brothers and sisters.<n id="1" />

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.

For we all stumble<n id="1" /> in many ways. If someone does not stumble<n id="2" /> in what he says,<n id="3" /> he is a perfect individual,<n id="4" /> able to control the entire body as well.

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.

<p class="bodytext">Come now, you who say, &#8220;Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town<n id="1" /> and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.&#8221;

But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there,<n id="1" /> and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out &#8211; he<n id="2" /> will be blessed in what he does.<n id="3" />

Pure and undefiled religion before<n id="1" /> God the Father<n id="2" /> is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world.p>