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'warmed and filled,' but give not to them the things 17 needful to the body; what doth it profit? Even so the 18 faith, if it hath not works, is by itself dead. Yea, a man may say; 'Thou hast faith and I have works; shew me 'thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my 19 'faith by my works. Thou believest that there is one 'God; thou doest well; the demons also believe and 20 tremble. But wouldst thou know, O vain man, that the 'faith without the works is dead? Was not Abraham 'our father justified by works, when he offered up Isaac 'his son upon the altar? Thou seest how the faith wrought with his works, and by the works was the faith made perfect. And the scripture was fulfilled 'which saith; Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness, and he was called a friend of 'God.' Ye see that by works a man is justified, and not 25 by faith only. In like manner also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works when she received the mes26 sengers and sent them out another way? For as the body without breath is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

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Be not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive the heavier condemnation. For in many things we all sin. If any man sin not in word, he is a perfect man, able to bridle even the whole body. 3 Behold, we put horses' bits into their mouths, to make them obey us; and we turn about their whole body. 4 Behold also the ships, though so great and driven by strong winds, yet are they turned about by a very small rudder, whithersoever the skill of the steersman wisheth. 5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth greatly. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

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And the tongue is a fire, the world of iniquity; so the tongue becometh among our members, defiling the whole body, and setting on fire the course of nature, and being set on fire by the Gehenna. For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fishes, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind; but the tongue no man can tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. By it we bless our God and Father; and by it we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God; out of the same mouth cometh blessing and 10 cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Doth a fountain send forth sweet and bitter from the 11 same opening? Can a fig-tree, my brethren, bear olives, 12 or a vine figs? So a salt spring cannot yield sweet water.

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Who among you is wise and hath understanding? 13 let him shew out of good behaviour his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envy and 14 strife in your hearts, do ye not boast, and lie against the truth? This wisdom is not come down from above, but 15 is earthly, animal, demoniacal. For where is envy and 16 strife, there is confusion and every evil work. But the 17 wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily persuaded, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of 18 righteousness in peace is sown by them that practise peace.

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From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, from your pleasures that war in your members ? Ye covet, and have not; ye kill, and envy, and cannot obtain ; ye fight and war, and have not because ye ask not; ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend upon your pleasures. adulterers, and adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever, therefore, would be a friend of the world becometh an enemy of God. Or think ye that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? But it 6 giveth more grace; wherefore it saith; God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the lowly. Submit yourselves therefore to God; resist the devil, and he will flee from you; draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you; 8 cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.

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your laughter be turned to mourning, and joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will lift you up.

Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law; and if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. There is One, the lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy; but who art thou that judgest another?

Go to now, ye that say, 'To-day and to-morrow let us go into such a city and be busy there a year, and trade 14 ' and get gain;' being such as know not about to-morrow; (for what is your life? for it is a vapour, that appeareth 15 for a little time, and then disappeareth;) instead of your

saying, 'If the Lord will, and we shall live, then let us do 16 'this or that.' But now ye rejoice in your boastings. All 17 such rejoicing is evil. Therefore to him that knoweth to do right and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

Go to now, ye rich, weep with howling for your griefs 2 that are coming on. Your riches are corrupted, and your 3 garments are become moth-eaten. Your gold and silver are rusted, and the rust of them will be a witness against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. Ye have hoarded 4 up for the last days. Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped your fields, which is by you kept back, crieth; and the cries of them that have gathered the harvest are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. 5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and wantoned; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Ye have condemned, ye have killed the Righteous One; he doth not resist you.

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Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, having patience for it, until it receive 8 the early and the latter rain; be ye also patient; establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord draweth 9 nigh. Murmur not one against another, brethren, lest ye be judged; behold, the judge standeth before the doors. 10 As an example of bearing affliction and of patience, my

brethren, take the prophets, who spake in the name of the 11 Lord. Behold, we count the patient happy. Ye have

heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is full of pity and of tenderness.

But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither 12 by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay; lest ye fall under judgment.

Is any among you afflicted? let him pray; is any 13 cheerful? let him sing psalms. Is any among you sick? 14 let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the 15 Lord will raise him; and if he have committed sins, they will be forgiven him. Acknowledge your trespasses one 16 to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed; the fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elijah was a man with like passions to us, and he prayed 17 in prayer that it might not rain; and it rained not on the land for three years and six months; and again he prayed, 18 and the heavens gave rain, and the land brought forth its fruit. Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and 19 one convert him, let him know, that he who converteth 20 a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.

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The First Epistle of PETER.

ETER, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the pilgrims of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, chosen according to the foreknowledge : of God the Father, in sanctification of spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ; grace and peace be multiplied unto you. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 3 who according to his great mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you that are being kept by the power of God through faith unto a salvation that is ready to be revealed in the latest season. Wherein rejoice ye, having now for a short time, if need be, been made to grieve in manifold temptations, so that the trial of your faith, being more precious than gold that

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perisheth though it be tried by fire, may be found unto praise and honour and glory at the revelation of Jesus 8 Christ; whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy 9 unspeakable and full of glory; receiving the end of your 10 faith, salvation of your souls. Of which salvation the prophets, who prophesied of the grace toward you, 11 searched out and inquired, inquiring to whom or to what season the spirit of Christ in them did point, when it witnessed beforehand of the sufferings for Christ and the 12 glory therewith. To whom it was revealed that not for themselves but for you they ministered those things, which were now told to you through those who preached the Good Tidings to you with holy spirit sent from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

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Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought 14 upon you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; as children

of obedience, not fashioning yourselves after the former 15 lusts in your ignorance, but as He who called you is holy, 16 so be ye holy in all behaviour; because it is written; 17 Be ye holy, for I am holy. And if ye call on the Father,

who without respect of persons judgeth according to each man's work, pass the time of your pilgrimage in 18 fear; knowing that ye were redeemed from your vain

behaviour after the tradition of your fathers, not by cor19 ruptible things, by silver or gold, but by the precious 20 blood of Christ, as of a lamb faultless and spotless; who

indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the 21 world, but shewn in these last times for you that through

him believe on God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be to22 ward God. Having purified your souls in obeying the truth through the spirit unto unfeigned brotherly love, 23 love one another fervently with a pure heart; being born again, not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible, by the 24 word of the living and enduring God. For all flesh is

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as grass, and all its glory as the flower of grass. The 25 grass withereth, and its flower falleth off; but the word of the Lord abideth to the end of the world. is the word which hath been preached to you. Wherefore putting away all malice, and all guile, and

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