But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.

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

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?

Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months.