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

Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud over the miseries that are coming on you.

You have lived indulgently and luxuriously on the earth. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

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!

do you pay attention to the one who is finely dressed and say, “You sit here in a good place,” and to the poor person, “You stand over there,” or “Sit on the floor”?