After that He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded.

"Their throat is an open grave, with their tongues they have used deceit, the poison of asps is under their lips;

Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (which is idolatry),

(not in the passion of lust, even as the nations who do not know God),

For an overseer must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not full of passion, not given to wine, not quarrelsome, not greedy for ill gain;

But no one can tame the tongue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Your gold and silver have corroded, and their poison will be a witness against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You heaped treasure in the last days.

Elijah was a man of like passion as we are. And he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for the time of three years and six months.