But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.

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, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;

For after looking at himself he goes away, and in a short time he has no memory of what he was like.

So speak and act like men who are to be judged by the law of liberty.

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

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

And the tongue is like a spark. Among the members of our body it proves itself a very world of mischief; it contaminates the whole body; it sets the wheels of life on fire, and is itself set on fire by the flames of the Pit.

Out of the same mouth flow blessing and cursing! It ought not to be like this, my brothers.

Such wisdom does not come from above. It is earthly, animal, 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.

Whereas you do not know what tomorrow will be like. What is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

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

Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your 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.

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.