For the sun rises with its burning heat, and withers the grass, and its flower falls, and the beauty of its form perishes. So, also, shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

So, then, desire, when it has conceived, brings forth sin; and sin, when it is matured, brings forth death.

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

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

Therefore, to him that knows how to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.

Behold, we count those happy who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the final dealing of the Lord, that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.