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but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin; and ye are convicted by the law, as transgressors of the law.

For he who said, Thou shalt not commit adultery, said also, Thou shalt not kill. If then thou commit no adultery, but thou killest, thou hast become a transgressor of the law.

Let there not be many teachers among you, my brethren; but know ye, that we are obnoxious to, a severer judgment.

But the tongue hath no one been able to tame: it is an evil thing, not coercible, and full of deadly poison.

But if bitter envy be in you, or contention in your hearts, exalt not yourselves against the truth, and lie not.

For this wisdom cometh not down from above; but is earthly, and from the devices of the soul, and from demons.

But the wisdom which is from above, is pure, and full of peace, and mild, and submissive, and full of compassion and of good fruits, and without partiality, and without respect of persons.

But our Lord hath given us more grace. Therefore he said: The Lord humbleth the lofty, and giveth grace to the lowly.

Speak not against each other, my brethren; for he that speaketh against his brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law. And if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but its judge.

There is one Law-giver and Judge, who can make alive, and [fn] destroy: but who art thou, that thou judgest thy neighbor?

But what shall we say of those, who say: To-day or to-morrow we will go to such or such a city, and will abide there a year; and we will traffic, and get gain?

And they know not what will be to-morrow: for what is our life, but an exhalation that is seen a little while, and then vanisheth and is gone?

But, my brethren, be ye patient until the advent of the Lord; like the husbandman, who waiteth for the precious fruits of his ground, and is patient as to them, until he receive the early and the latter rain.

But above all things, my brethren, swear ye not; neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your language be yes, yes, and no, no, lest ye become obnoxious to judgment.

12 And it was revealed to them, [fn] all they were searching, that, not for themselves were they inquiring, but for us they were prophesying of those things, which are now manifested to you by means of the things we have announced to you, by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven; which things the angels also desire to look into.

But be ye holy in all your conduct, as he is holy who hath called you.

but with the precious blood of that Lamb in which is no spot nor blemish, namely, the Messiah:

like persons born again, not of seed that perisheth, but of that which doth not perish, by the living word of God, who abideth for ever.

but the word of our God abideth for ever: and this is the word that is announced to you.

to whom ye have come, because he is a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but with God elect and precious.