[because you] know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

But he should ask in faith, without doubting, because the person who doubts [that he will receive wisdom] is like an ocean wave that is driven and tossed by the wind.

because he is double-minded and undecided in all that he does [i.e., he cannot make up his mind and follow through about anything].

But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.

When someone is tempted, he should not say, "I am being tempted by God," because God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone.

Because he was so minded, he hath brought us forth with a word of truth, to the end we should be a sort of firstfruit of his creatures

because, if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this one hath been like to a man viewing his natural face in a mirror,

But the man who looks closely into the perfect law??he law of liberty??nd continues looking, this man will be blessed in his deed because he is not a hearer who forgets, but a doer who does.

but if you show partiality, you are committing sin, because you are convicted by the law as lawbreakers.

In the same way, if [your] faith does not have [good] deeds [to accompany it], it is dead, [because it stands] alone.

Was it, or was it not, because of his actions that he was declared to be righteous as the result of his having offered up his son Isaac upon the altar?

You all see that it is because of actions that a man is pronounced righteous, and not simply because of faith.

In the same way also was not the notorious sinner Rahab declared to be righteous because of her actions when she welcomed the spies and hurriedly helped them to escape another way?

Not many should become teachers, my brothers, [because you] know that we will receive a greater judgment.

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.

be patient, ye also; establish your hearts, because the presence of the Lord hath drawn nigh;

Behold, we pronounce them happy who have endured: you have heard the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, because the Lord is very merciful, and sympathetic.