⁵ I say `this' to move you to shame. What, cannot there be `found' among you one wise man who shall be able to decide between his brethren,

¹⁴ I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

³⁴ Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak `this' to move you to shame.

¹³ Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom.

¹⁴ But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.

¹⁵ This wisdom is not `a wisdom' that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

¹⁶ For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed.

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 variance, without hypocrisy.

¹⁸ And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for them that make peace.

⁸ The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way; But the folly of fools is deceit.

¹⁸ Let no man deceive himself. If any man thinketh that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

¹⁰ We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye have glory, but we have dishonor.

¹⁴ Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

⁵ But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

¹⁵ And in these days Peter stood up in the midst of the brethren, and said (and there was a multitude of persons `gathered' together, about a hundred and twenty),