For the sun rises with its burning heat and dries up the grass, and its flower falls off, and the beauty of its appearance is lost. So also the rich person in his pursuits will wither away.

Was not Abraham our father justified by works [when he] offered up his son Isaac on the altar?

And if we put bits in the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we also guide their whole bodies.

Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloominess.

Come now, you rich people, weep [and] cry aloud over the miseries that are coming upon you!

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.

And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed sins {he will be forgiven}.