⁵ unto your shame I speak: so there is not among you one wise man, not even one, who shall be able to discern in the midst of his brethren!

¹⁴ Not `as' putting you to shame do I write these things, but as my beloved children I do admonish,

³⁴ awake up, as is right, and sin not; for certain have an ignorance of God; for shame to you I say `it'.

¹³ Who `is' wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom,

¹⁴ and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;

¹⁵ this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like,

¹⁶ for where zeal and rivalry `are', there is insurrection and every evil matter;

¹⁷ and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --

¹⁸ and the fruit of the righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.

⁸ The wisdom of the prudent `is' to understand his way, And the folly of fools `is' deceit.

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age -- let him become a fool, that he may become wise,

¹⁰ we `are' fools because of Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we `are' ailing, and ye strong; ye glorious, and we dishonoured;

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

⁵ and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

¹⁵ And in these days, Peter having risen up in the midst of the disciples, said, (the multitude also of the names at the same place was, as it were, an hundred and twenty,)