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For every kind of beasts and of birds, of creeping things and of things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by man: but the tongue no man can tame; it is an unruly evil; it is full of deadly poison. With it we bless God, even the Father and with it we curse men, who are made in the likeness of God. 10 Out of the same mouth come forth blessing and cursing. These things, my brethren, ought not so to be. 11 Does a fountain send forth from the same cavern sweet water and bitter? 12 Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olives, or the vine, figs? So no fountain can produce salt water and fresh.

13 Who is wise and discreet among you? Let him show, by a good behavior, his works, with the meekness of wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom comes not from above, but is earthly, animal, demoniac. 16 For where envy and strife are, there is commotion, and every evil work. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 18 And those who cultivate peace, sow for themselves a harvest of righteousness' in peace.

IV. Whence come wars and strifes among you? Come they not hence, even of your passions, which war in your members? 2 You desire, and you have not; you kill, and are earnestly desirous of having, and yet you can not obtain; you fight and war, and yet you have not, because you ask not. You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your passions.

Adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? Whoever, therefore, will

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be a friend of the world, is an enemy of God. Do you suppose that the scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the Spirit that dwells in us incline to envy? No. But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says: God sets himself against the proud, but gives grace to the lowly. Submit yourselves, therefore, to God; resist the devil, and he will flee from you; draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded men. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to sorrow. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

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11 Do not speak evil one of another, brethren. He that speaks evil of his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law, and judges the law: but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12 There is one law-giver that is able to save, and to destroy: who are you that judge another?

13 Come, now, you that say, Let us go to-day, or to-morrow, into this city, and remain there a year, and trade, and make gain; and yet you know not what will take place to-morrow. For what is your life? Is it not, indeed, a vapor, that appears for a little while, and then vanishes away? 15 Instead of that, you ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. 16 But now you glory in your boastings: all such glorying is evil. 17 Therefore, to him that knows how to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.

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against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You have heaped up treasures in the last days. Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped your fields, which has been unjustly withheld by you, cries out: and the cries of those who have reaped, have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; you have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. You have condemned and killed the Just One: and he does not set himself against you.

Be patient, therefore, brethren, till the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer looks for the precious fruit of the earth, and waits patiently for it, till he receives the early and the latter rain. Be you also patient, establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draws near.

Indulge not in complaints against one another, brethren, lest you be condemned: behold, the judge stands before the door. 10 Take, my brethren, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord, as an example of suffering evil, and of patience. Behold, we count those happy who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the final dealing of the Lord, that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.

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12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, either by heaven, or by the earth, or with any other oath: but let your yes, be yes, and your no, be no, lest you fall into condemnation. 13 Is any one among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any one cheerful? let him sing praise. 14 Is any one among you sick? 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. 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick; and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, they shall be forgiven

16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray for one another, that you may be restored to health: the fervent prayer of righteous man avails much. 17 Elijah was a man with passions like our own; and he earnestly prayed that it might not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. 18 And he prayed again; and the heavens gave rain, and the earth brought forth its fruit.

19 Brethren, if any among you should err from the truth, and one should turn him back, 20 let him know that he who turns back a sinner from the error of his way, will save a soul from death, and cover a multitude of sins.

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PETER, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the sojourners

that are dispersed through Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 2 elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctification of the Spirit, in order to obedience, and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: grace be to you, and peace be multiplied.

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to his abundant mercy, has, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, regenerated us for a living hope in respect to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved in heaven for us, 5 who are kept secure by the power of God through faith, to a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time: in which you rejoice, though now for a little while, since it is needful, you are in sorrow under various temptations; that your faith, when proved, being much more precious than gold, which perishes though it be tried by fire, may be found to be for praise and honor and glory, at the revelation of Jesus Christ; whom, though you have not seen him, yet you love; on whom not now looking, but believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable, and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

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10 Concerning which salvation the prophets that prophesied of the grace that should be for you, did inquire, and search dili