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looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby the many be defiled;

But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels,

to the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God, the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

Therefore, receiving a kingdom that can't be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may offer service well pleasing to God, with reverence and awe,

for our God is a consuming fire.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which make confession to his name.

But don't forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given him.

Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.

for the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness;" and he was called the friend of God.

With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.