But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.

and the rich man is to glory in his humiliation, because like flowering grass he will pass away.

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

Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

Your gold and your silver have rusted; and their rust will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have stored up your treasure!

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