For that [doubting] person should not think that he will receive anything from the Lord [through prayer],

because he is double-minded and undecided in all that he does [i.e., he cannot make up his mind and follow through about anything].

Let no one say when passing through trial, "My temptation is from God;" for God is incapable of being tempted to do evil, and He Himself tempts no one.

Because he willed, he gave us birth through the word of truth, so that we should be a kind of first-fruits among his creatures.

Listen, my dear Brothers. Has not God chosen those who are poor in the things of this world to be rich through their faith, and to possess the Kingdom which he has promised to those who love him?

For God, who said [through Moses, Ex. 20:13f], "You must not be sexually unfaithful to your mate," also said, "You must not murder." Now if you are sexually faithful to your mate and yet murder [someone], you have become a lawbreaker.

So, be speaking, and, so, doing, as they who, through means of a law of freedom, are about to be judged;

Was not Abraham our father justified through works when he offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

Thou seest how that faith wrought within his deeds, and through the deeds was the faith made perfect.

You see that a man (believer) is justified by works and not by faith alone [that is, by acts of obedience a born-again believer reveals his faith].

Likewise also, was not Rahab the harlot justified through works, when she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?

Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire. You have stored up your treasure in the last days [when it will do you no good].

We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.

Be certain that he through whom a sinner has been turned from the error of his way, keeps a soul from death and is the cause of forgiveness for sins without number.