do they not themselves speak evil of the good name that was called upon you?
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James
If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' — ye do well;
and if ye accept persons, sin ye do work, being convicted by the law as transgressors;
for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one [point], he hath become guilty of all;
for He who is saying, 'Thou mayest not commit adultery,' said also, 'Thou mayest do no murder;' and if thou shalt not commit adultery, and shalt commit murder, thou hast become a transgressor of law;
so speak ye and so do, as about by a law of liberty to be judged,
for the judgment without kindness [is] to him not having done kindness, and exult doth kindness over judgment.
What [is] the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him?
and if a brother or sister may be naked, and may be destitute of the daily food,
and any one of you may say to them, 'Depart ye in peace, be warmed, and be filled,' and may not give to them the things needful for the body, what [is] the profit?
so also the faith, if it may not have works, is dead by itself.
But say may some one, Thou hast faith, and I have works, shew me thy faith out of thy works, and I will shew thee out of my works my faith:
thou — thou dost believe that God is one; thou dost well, and the demons believe, and they shudder!
And dost thou wish to know, O vain man, that the faith apart from the works is dead?
Abraham our father — was not he declared righteous out of works, having brought up Isaac his son upon the altar?
dost thou see that the faith was working with his works, and out of the works the faith was perfected?
and fulfilled was the Writing that is saying, 'And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him — to righteousness;' and, 'Friend of God' he was called.
Ye see, then, that out of works is man declared righteous, and not out of faith only;
and in like manner also Rahab the harlot — was she not out of works declared righteous, having received the messengers, and by another way having sent forth?
for as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also the faith apart from the works is dead.
Many teachers become not, my brethren, having known that greater judgment we shall receive,
for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one [is] a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body;
lo, the bits we put into the mouths of the horses for their obeying us, and their whole body we turn about;
lo, also the ships, being so great, and by fierce winds being driven, are led about by a very small helm, whithersoever the impulse of the helmsman doth counsel,
so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle!
and the tongue [is] a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.
For every nature, both of beasts and of fowls, both of creeping things and things of the sea, is subdued, and hath been subdued, by the human nature,
and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison,
with it we do bless the God and Father, and with it we do curse the men made according to the similitude of God;
out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;
doth the fountain out of the same opening pour forth the sweet and the bitter?
is a fig-tree able, my brethren, olives to make? or a vine figs? so no fountain salt and sweet water [is able] to make.
Who [is] wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom,
and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;
this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like,
for where zeal and rivalry [are], there is insurrection and every evil matter;
and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: —
and the fruit of the righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.
Whence [are] wars and fightings among you? not thence — out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?
ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;
ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend [it].
Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.
Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, 'To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'
and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, 'God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'
be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;
draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!
be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;
be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you.
Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge;
one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; thou — who art thou that dost judge the other?
Go, now, ye who are saying, 'To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;'
who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;
instead of your saying, 'If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;'
and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;
to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.
Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon [you];
your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;
your gold and silver have rotted, and the rust of them for a testimony shall be to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye made treasure in the last days!
lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you — doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered;
ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter;
ye did condemn — ye did murder the righteous one, he doth not resist you.
Be patient, then, brethren, till the presence of the Lord; lo, the husbandman doth expect the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, till he may receive rain — early and latter;
be patient, ye also; establish your hearts, because the presence of the Lord hath drawn nigh;
murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye may not be condemned; lo, the Judge before the door hath stood.
An example take ye of the suffering of evil, my brethren, and of the patience, the prophets who did speak in the name of the Lord;
lo, we call happy those who are enduring; the endurance of Job ye heard of, and the end of the Lord ye have seen, that very compassionate is the Lord, and pitying.
And before all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, and let your Yes be Yes, and the No, No; that under judgment ye may not fall.
Doth any one suffer evil among you? let him pray; is any of good cheer? let him sing psalms;
is any infirm among you? let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil, in the name of the Lord,
and the prayer of the faith shall save the distressed one, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if sins he may have committed, they shall be forgiven to him.
Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;
Elijah was a man like affected as we, and with prayer he did pray — not to rain, and it did not rain upon the land three years and six months;
and again he did pray, and the heaven did give rain, and the land did bring forth her fruit.
Brethren, if any among you may go astray from the truth, and any one may turn him back,
let him know that he who did turn back a sinner from the straying of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.
1 Peter
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the choice sojourners of the dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
according to a foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied!
Blessed [is] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,
to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you,
who, in the power of God are being guarded, through faith, unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time,
in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials,
that the proof of your faith — much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved — may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,
whom, not having seen, ye love, in whom, now not seeing and believing, ye are glad with joy unspeakable and glorified,
receiving the end of your faith — salvation of souls;
concerning which salvation seek out and search out did prophets who concerning the grace toward you did prophecy,
searching in regard to what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ that was in them was manifesting, testifying beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glory after these,
to whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they were ministering these, which now were told to you (through those who did proclaim good news to you,) in the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, to which things messengers do desire to bend looking.
Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope perfectly upon the grace that is being brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ,
as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,
but according as He who did call you [is] holy, ye also, become holy in all behaviour,
because it hath been written, 'Become ye holy, because I am holy;'
and if on the Father ye do call, who without acceptance of persons is judging according to the work of each, in fear the time of your sojourn pass ye,
having known that, not with corruptible things — silver or gold — were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers,
but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted — Christ's —
foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, and manifested in the last times because of you,
who through him do believe in God, who did raise out of the dead, and glory to him did give, so that your faith and hope may be in God.
Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,
being begotten again, not out of seed corruptible, but incorruptible, through a word of God — living and remaining — to the age;
because all flesh [is] as grass, and all glory of man as flower of grass; wither did the grass, and the flower of it fell away,
and the saying of the Lord doth remain — to the age; and this is the saying that was proclaimed good news to you.