For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord,

You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

But no human being can subdue the tongue; it is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless?

Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters! Let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.

With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse people made in God’s image.

Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain and there was no rain on the land for three years and six months!