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for the judgment without kindness [is] to him not having done kindness, and exult doth kindness over judgment.

and any one of you may say to them, `Depart ye in peace, be warmed, and be filled,' and may not give to them the things needful for the body, what [is] the profit?

for as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also the faith apart from the works is dead.

for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one [is] a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body;

lo, the bits we put into the mouths of the horses for their obeying us, and their whole body we turn about;

For every nature, both of beasts and of fowls, both of creeping things and things of the sea, is subdued, and hath been subdued, by the human nature,

for where zeal and rivalry [are], there is insurrection and every evil matter;

who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;

your gold and silver have rotted, and the rust of them for a testimony shall be to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye made treasure in the last days!

Be patient, then, brethren, till the presence of the Lord; lo, the husbandman doth expect the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, till he may receive rain -- early and latter;

is any infirm among you? let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil, in the name of the Lord,

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you,

to you, then, who are believing [is] the preciousness; and to the unbelieving, a stone that the builders disapproved of, this one did become for the head of a corner,

whether to governors, as to those sent through him, for punishment, indeed, of evil-doers, and a praise of those doing good;

for this [is] gracious, if because of conscience toward God any one doth endure sorrows, suffering unrighteously;

for what renown [is it], if sinning and being buffeted, ye do endure [it]? but if, doing good and suffering [for it], ye do endure, this [is] gracious with God,

for to this ye were called, because Christ also did suffer for you, leaving to you an example, that ye may follow his steps,

for ye were as sheep going astray, but ye turned back now to the shepherd and overseer of your souls.

for thus once also the holy women who did hope on God, were adorning themselves, being subject to their own husbands,