Catholic Epistle
A Reading from Epistle of St. James .
May his blessing be upon us.
Amen.
James 4 : 11 - 5 : 3
Chapter 4
| 11 | Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a 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.
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| 12 | There is one Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge another?
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| 13 | Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit";
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| 14 | whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
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| 15 | Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that."
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| 16 | But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
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| 17 | Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.
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Chapter 5
| 1 | Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you!
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| 2 | Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
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| 3 | Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days.
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Do not love the world or the things in the world.
The world passes away, and its desires; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
Amen.
