But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and with no reproach, and it shall be given to him.

But let him ask in faith, doubting nothing. For he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.

and the rich one rejoice in his humiliation, because he shall pass away as the flower of the grass.

If you fulfill the royal Law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.

But if you have respect to persons, you commit sin and are convicted by the Law as transgressors.

So speak and do as those who shall be judged by the Law of liberty.

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

You desire, and do not have. You murder, and are jealous, and cannot obtain. You fight and war, yet you have not because you ask not.

You ask and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it upon your lusts.

Your gold and silver have corroded, and their poison will be a witness against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You heaped treasure in the last days.

You have lived luxuriously on the earth, and lived wantonly. You have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

Elijah was a man of like passion as we are. And he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for the time of three years and six months.