The sun rises with his scorching heat and dries up the herbage, so that its flowers drop off and the beauty of its appearance perishes, and in the same way rich men with all their prosperity will fade away.

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

But if you are making distinctions between one man and another, you are guilty of sin, and are convicted by the Law as offenders.

Was it, or was it not, because of his actions that he was declared to be righteous as the result of his having offered up his son Isaac upon the altar?

when, all the while, you do not even know what will happen to-morrow. For what is the nature of your life? Why, it is but a mist, which appears for a short time and then is seen no more.

If, however, a man knows what it is right to do and yet does not do it, he commits a sin.

Come, you rich men, weep aloud and howl for your sorrows which will soon be upon you.

Remember that we call those blessed who endured what they did. You have also heard of Job's patient endurance, and have seen the issue of the Lord's dealings with him--how full of tenderness and pity the Lord is.