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

For if any man be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like to a man considering his natural face in a mirror:

for he has considered himself and is gone away, and straightway he has forgotten what he was like.

But was not in like manner also Rahab the harlot justified on the principle of works, when she had received the messengers and put them forth by another way?

Elias was a man of like passions to us, and he prayed with prayer that it should not rain; and it did not rain upon the earth three years and six months;