For the sun comes up with its scorching heat and dries up the grass, and its flowers wither, and its beauty fades away; so will rich men fade away in their pursuits.

Then evil desire conceives and gives birth to sin, and when sin is completed, it brings forth death.

but if you show partiality, you are committing sin, because you are convicted by the law as lawbreakers.

Was not our forefather Abraham shown to be upright by his good deeds, namely, by offering Isaac his son upon the altar?

So when a man knows what is right but does not do it, he is guilty of sin.

See how we call those who thus endured happy! You have heard how patiently Job endured and have seen how the Lord finally blessed him, because the Lord is tenderhearted and merciful.