For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; its flower falls and its beauty is destroyed. So will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

Then when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is full-grown, it brings forth death.

But if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

And the harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.

Behold, we call those blessed who endured. You have heard of the endurance of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.