By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises, yet he was ready to offer up his only son.

and he reasoned that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense he received him back from there.

Endure your suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?

And do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for God is pleased with such sacrifices.

But he must ask in faith without doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed around by the wind.

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

Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says, “The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning”?

But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.”

Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter into mourning and your joy into despair.

You ought to say instead, “If the Lord is willing, then we will live and do this or that.”

Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the land sprouted with a harvest.

and a stumbling-stone and a rock to trip over. They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

Let your beauty not be external – the braiding of hair and wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes –

Be sober and alert. Your enemy the devil, like a roaring lion, is on the prowl looking for someone to devour.

These men are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm, for whom the utter depths of darkness have been reserved.

The one who says he is in the light but still hates his fellow Christian is still in the darkness.

The one who loves his fellow Christian resides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.

If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.

And everyone who has this hope focused on him purifies himself, just as Jesus is pure).

Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; indeed, sin is lawlessness.