but every person is tempted, when by his own peculiar passion he is born away, and ensnared.

Then the passion conceives, and becomes the parent of sin; and sin, when fully matured, gives birth to death.

Wherefore, my dear brethren, let every one be eager to hear, averse to contradiction, and deaf to passion.

But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Your gold and silver have corroded, and their poison will be a witness against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You heaped treasure in the last days.

Elijah was a man of like passion as we are. And he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for the time of three years and six months.