I therefore so run, not as at an uncertain thing. So fight I, not as one that beateth the air:

Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not exceeding wise, and that they trust not in the uncertain riches, but in the living God, which giveth us abundantly all things to enjoy them,

And also if the trumpet give an uncertain voice, who shall prepare himself to fight?

yea, almost in every epistle, speaking of such things: among which are many things hard to be understood: which they that are unlearned and unstable pervert, as they do other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

Ponder these things once in your mind, and wonder: Blinded are they themselves, and the blind guides of others; they are drunken, but not with wine; they are unstable, but not through strong drink.

He that trusteth in his riches shall have a fall; but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.

Go to now, ye that say, "Today and tomorrow let us go into such a city and continue there a year and buy, and sell, and win,"

Nevertheless when they turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away.

but the wisdom that is from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, and without simulation.

And the proud shall stumble and fall, and no man shall help him up. I will burn up his cities with fire, and it shall consume all that is round about him.

For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent that I might have knowledge of your faith, lest haply the tempter had tempted you, and that our labour had been bestowed in vain.

And when the cloud was taken up from of the tabernacle, then the children of Israel journeyed: and where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.

And then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake.

And lo, in that time will I destroy all those that vex thee: I will help the lame, and gather up the cast away: yea, I will get them honour and praise in all lands, where they have been put to shame.

She regardeth not the path of life, so unsteadfast are her ways, that thou canst not know them.

But Peter stepped forth with the eleven, and lift up his voice, and said unto them, "Ye men of Jewry, and all ye that inhabit Jerusalem: be this known unto you, and with your ears hear my words.

A wavering minded man is unstable in all his ways.

For the LORD hath made Egypt drunken with the spirit of error, and they shall use it in all matters: even like as a drunken man goeth spewing about.

and that they do good and be rich in good works, and ready to give and to distribute,

Is it not better then for a man to eat and drink, and his soul to be merry in his labour? Yea I saw that this also was a gift of God:

We beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and in that we shall assemble unto him,

Therefore shall I also laugh in your destruction, and mock you, when the thing that ye fear cometh upon you:

O trust not in wrong or robbery; give not yourselves unto vanity. If riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

For who knoweth what is good for man living, in the days of his vain life, which is but a shadow? Or, who will tell a man what shall happen after him under the Sun?

And he put forth a similitude unto them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth fruits plenteously,

Faith is a sure confidence of things which are hoped for, and a certainty of things which are not seen.

which only hath immortality, and dwelleth in light that no man can attain, whom never man saw, neither can see: unto whom be honour and rule everlasting. Amen.

and yet cannot tell what shall happen tomorrow. For what thing is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Shall my heaviness endure forever? Are my plagues then so great, that they may never be healed? Wilt thou be as a water that faileth, and cannot continue?"