20 shudder. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith apart 21 from works is barren? Was not Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son upon 22 the altar? 1Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made 23 perfect; and the scripture was fulfilled which saith, And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness; and he was 24 called the friend of God. Ye see that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith. 25 And in like manner was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them 26 out another way? For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead. willeth. So the tongue also 5 is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, 3 how much wood is kindled by how small a fire! And the 6 tongue is a fire: 5 the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell. For 7 every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind: but the tongue can no man 8 tame; it is a restless evil, it is full of deadly poison. There- 9 with bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the likeness of God: out of 10 the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought 31 Be not many teachers, my not so to be. Doth the foun- 11 brethren, knowing that we tain send forth from the same shall receive heavier judge- opening sweet water and bit2 ment. For in many things ter? can a fig tree, my bre- 12 we all stumble. If any stum-thren, yield olives, or a vine bleth not in word, the same figs? neither can salt water is a perfect man, able to bridle yield sweet. 3 the whole body also. Now if we put the horses' bridles into their mouths, that they may obey us, we turn about their 4 whole body also. Behold, the ships also, though they are so great, and are driven by rough winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, whither the impulse of the steersman Who is wise and under- 13 standing among you? let him shew by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter jealousy 14 and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. This wisdom is 15 not a wisdom that cometh down from above, but is earth 1 Or, Seest thou...perfect? 2 Gr. greater. 3 Or, how great a forest 4 Or, a fire, that world of iniquity: the tongue is among our members that which &c. 5 Or, that world of iniquity, the tongue, is among our members that which &c. 6 Or, birth 7 Gr. nature. 8 Or, unto 9 Gr. the human nature. 16 ly, sensual, 2devilish. For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and 17 every vile deed. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without 18 hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace 4 for them that make peace. 4 1 Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that 2 war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and 5 covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, 3 because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend 4 it in your pleasures. Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God. 5 Or think ye that the scripture 6 speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying? 6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore the scripture saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. 7 Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he 8 will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw 1 Or, natural Or, animal Cleanse your nigh to you. hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded. Be afflicted, and mourn, and 9 weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Humble 10 yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt you. Speak not one against 11 another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. One only is the lawgiver and 12 judge, even he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbour? Go to now, ye that say, 13 To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain: whereas ye know 14 not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 10 For that ye ought to say, If 15 the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that. But now ye glory in your 16 vauntings: all such glorying is evil. To him therefore 17 that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. Go to now, ye rich, weep 15 and howl for your miseries 2 Gr. demoniacal. Or, partiality 4 Or, by 5 Gr. are jealous. 8 Or, doubtfulness 6 Or, saith in vain, 7 Or, The spirit which he made to dwell in us he yearneth for even unto jealous envy. Or, That spirit which he made to dwell in us yearneth for us even unto jealous envy. 8 Some ancient authorities read dwelleth in us. 9 Gr. a greater grace. 10 Gr. Instead of your saying. of the Lord, how that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful. But above all things, my 12 brethren, swear not, neither by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but 5 let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay; that ye fall not under judgement. Is any among you suffering? 13 let him pray. Is any cheerful? let him sing praise. Is any 14 among you sick? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, that are coming upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth3 eaten. Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony lagainst you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the 4 last days. Behold, the hire of the labourers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sa5 baoth. Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaugh6 ter. Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous one; he doth not resist you. 7 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the 2 coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the 8 early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the 2 coming of the 9 Lord is at hand. Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that ye be not judged; behold, the judge standeth 10 before the doors. Take, bre- My brethren, if any among 19 thren, for an example of suffer-you do err from the truth, and ing and of patience, the pro-one convert him; let him 20 phets who spake in the name 11 of the Lord. Behold, we call them blessed which endured: ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: and 15 the prayer of faith shall save him that is sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him. Confess 16 therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working. Elijah was a 17 man of like 7passions with us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months. And he prayed again; and the 18 heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. know, that he which converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins. 1 Or, unto 2 Gr. presence. 3 Or, he 4 Or, endurance 5 Or, let yours be the yea, yea, and the nay, nay Compare Matt. v. 37. 6 Or, having anointed 9 Some ancient authorities read know ye. 7 Or, nature 8 Gr. with prayer. 11 THE FIRST EPISTLE GENERAL OF PETER. PETER, an apostle of Jesus | and honour at the revelation Christ, to the elect who are of Jesus Christ: whom not 8 sojourners of the Dispersion having seen ye love; on whom, in Pontus, Galatia, Cappado- though now ye see him not, 2 cia, Asia, and Bithynia, ac- yet believing, ye rejoice greatcording to the foreknowledge ly with joy unspeakable and of God the Father, in sancti- 2 full of glory: receiving the 9 fication of the Spirit, unto end of your faith, even the obedience and sprinkling of salvation of your souls. Con- 10 the blood of Jesus Christ: cerning which salvation the Grace to you and peace be prophets sought and searched multiplied. diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: searching what 11 time or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did point unto, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that should follow them. To whom it was re- 12 vealed, that not unto themselves, but unto you, did they minister these things, which now have been announced unto you through them that preached the gospel unto you by the Holy Ghost sent forth from heaven; which things angels desire to look into. 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ 4 from the dead, unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for 5 you, who by the power of God are guarded through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, ye have been put to grief in manifold 1tempta7 tions, that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold that perisheth though it is proved by fire, might be found unto praise and glory 1 Or, trials 2 Gr. glorified. Spirit 6 Gr. is being brought. Wherefore girding up the 13 loins of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be 5 Or, Holy 3 Gr. unto. 4 Gr. in. brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; 14 as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance: 15 but 1like as he which called you is holy, be ye yourselves also holy in all manner of 16 living; because it is written, Ye shall be holy; for I am 17 holy. And if ye call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to each man's work, pass the time of your sojourning in 18 fear: knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fa19 thers; but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, even the 20 blood of Christ: who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of 21 the times for your sake, who through him are believers in God, which raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope 22 might be in God. Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another 2 from the heart fervently: 23 having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the But the word of the Lord 25 abideth for ever. And this is the word of good tidings which was preached unto you. Putting away therefore all 12 5 wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as new- 2 born babes, long for the "spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation; if ye have 3 tasted that the Lord is gracious: unto whom coming, a 4 living stone, rejected indeed of men, but with God elect, 7precious, ye also, as living 5 stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. Because 6 it is contained in 9 scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a And he that believeth on 10 him shall not be put to 11 For you therefore which be-7 lieve is the 12preciousness: but for such as disbelieve, The stone which the build- 1 Or, like the Holy One which called you 2 Many ancient authorities read from a clean heart. malice 6 Gr. reasonable. 7 Or, honourable for a holy priesthood sight 12 Or, honour 3 Or, God who liveth 9 Or, a scripture 4 Gr. saying. 5 Or, 8 Or, a spiritual house 10 Or, it 11 Or, In your |