So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.

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

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, because you know that we will be judged more strictly.

Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. He who speaks against a fellow believer or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge.

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and not hypocritical.

Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you double-minded.

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”

And the tongue is a fire! The tongue represents the world of wrongdoing among the parts of our bodies. It pollutes the entire body and sets fire to the course of human existence – and is set on fire by hell.

You desire and you do not have; you murder and envy and you cannot obtain; you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask;

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!