¹⁵ And in those days, Peter stood up in the midst of ^(A)the brothers (a crowd of about 120 ^[a]persons was there together), and said,

^2 (A)Consider it all joy, my brothers, when you encounter ^(B)various ^[a]trials,

Doers of the Word

^19 [a](A)Know this, ^(B)my beloved brothers. But everyone must be quick to hear, ^(C)slow to speak and ^(D)slow to anger;

The Sin of Favoritism

2 ^(A)My brothers, ^(B)do not hold your faith in our ^[a](C)glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of ^(D)personal favoritism.

⁵ Listen, ^(A)my beloved brothers: did not ^(B)God choose the poor ^[a]of this world to be ^(C)rich in faith and ^(D)heirs of the kingdom which He ^(E)promised to those who love Him?

Faith and Works

^14 (A)What use is it, ^(B)my brothers, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can ^[a]that faith save him?

The Tongue Is a Fire

3 ^(A)Do not, many of you, become teachers, ^(B)my brothers, knowing that we will receive a ^[a]stricter judgment.

¹⁰ From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

^11 (A)Do not slander one another, ^(B)brothers. He who slanders a brother or ^(C)judges his brother, slanders ^(D)the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not ^(E)a doer of the law but a judge of it.