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But let him ask in faith, not doubting. For he who doubts is like the waves of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.

For as the sun rises with its burning heat and causes the grass to wither, and the flower to fall and its beauty to perish: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

Blessed is the man who endures temptations: for when he is tested, he shall receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither does he tempt any man:

For the wrath of man does not bring about the righteousness of God.

For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man who sees his face in a mirror;

For he sees himself and goes his way, and forgets how he looked.

For a pure and holy ministry before God, the Father, is this, To visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

For if there should enter into your synagogue a man with gold rings and costly garments, and there should also enter a poor man in soiled clothing;

For whoever shall keep the whole law, except that he fail in but one statute, he is guilty as to the whole law.

For he who said, Thou shalt not commit adultery, said also, Thou shalt not kill. Now if you do not commit adultery, but you kill, you have become a transgressor of the law.

For a judgment without mercy will be on him, who does not show mercy; for you exalt yourselves by having mercy over judgment.

And one of you say to them, Depart in peace, be warmed, and be filled; yet you do not give to them those things which are needed for the body, what does it profit?

For a man may say, You have faith, and I have works: show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

And the scripture was fulfilled which said, Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

For in many things we all stumble. Anyone who does not offend in word, this one is a perfect man, and able also to subdue his whole body.

For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of creatures of the sea and of the land are under the subjugation of the will of man.

For wherever envy and strife are, there is confusion and every sort of evil.

O you adulterers! Do you not know that the love for worldly things is enmity with God? Whosoever, therefore, esteems worldly things is the enemy of God.