Book of James

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain."

Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."

But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.

Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn't resist you.

Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

Don't grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won't be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

But above all things, my brothers, don't swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your "yes" be "yes," and your "no," "no;" so that you don't fall into hypocrisy.