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For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.

For ye know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for a change of mind in his father, though he sought it diligently with tears.

Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered without the gate.

Let us therefore go forth unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

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.

make you perfect in every good thing to do his will, working in us that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways.

But let the brother of low degree glory in his high estate:

For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and withereth the grass; and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his goings.

but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures.

For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror:

But he that looketh into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and so continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing.

If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man's religion is vain.

Was not Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son upon the altar?

Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect;

Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom.

Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

let him know, that he who converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.