But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

Such a man must not expect to get anything from the Lord??8 an irresolute person like him, who is uncertain about everything he does.

and the rich man is to glory in being humbled [by trials revealing human frailty, knowing true riches are found in the grace of God], for like the flower of the grass he will pass away.

For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

for he has considered himself and is gone away, and straightway he has forgotten what he was like.

You must make it your habit to speak and act like people who are going to be judged by the law of liberty.

But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless?

And in like manner was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?

And the tongue is [like] a fire [i.e., like that spark]. [For] the tongue, as a part of the body, is [like] the world of evil. It corrupts the entire life [of a person] and inflames the course of nature itself [i.e., it affects a person throughout his whole earthly existence], and is ignited by hell itself [i.e., the evil produced by the fiery tongue has hell as its source and destiny].

From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. It should not be like this, my brothers!

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

You adulteresses [disloyal sinners—flirting with the world and breaking your vow to God]! Do you not know that being the world’s friend [that is, loving the things of the world] is being God’s enemy? So whoever chooses to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

you who do not know {what will happen tomorrow}, {what your life will be like}. For you are a smoky vapor that appears for a short time and then disappears.

Whereas, now, are ye boasting in your pretensions: - All boasting like this, is, wicked,

Your gold and silver have become corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you, and it will consume your flesh like fire. You have stored up treasure in the last days.

Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come.

let the prophets, my brethren, who were commission'd by the Lord, be your examples; suffer persecution with constancy like them.

Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.