As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. Whoever knows what is right to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
But above all, my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath, but let your yes be yes and your no be no, that you may not fall under condemnation.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is dead.
Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, for you know that we who teach shall be judged with greater strictness.
My brethren, if any one among you wanders from the truth and some one brings him back, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says he has faith but has not works? Can his faith save him?