Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.
Where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”
If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless.
With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God’s likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be.
Remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save him from death and cover over a multitude of sins.
If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing right.
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.