For the sun hath no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and its flower falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?

Let him know, that he who converteth a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death, and will hide a multitude of sins.