Your gold and silver have rusted and their rust will be a witness against you. It will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have hoarded treasure! ¹ 

For he gazes at himself and then goes out and immediately forgets ¹  what sort of person he was.

Do they not blaspheme the good name of the one you belong to? ¹ 

You see that his faith was working together with his works and his faith was perfected by works.

With it we bless the Lord ¹  and Father, and with it we curse people ²  made in God’s image.

You have condemned and murdered the righteous person, although he does not resist you. ¹ 

And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Now Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness,” ¹  and he was called God’s friend. ² 

And similarly, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another way?

Think of how we regard ¹  as blessed those who have endured. You have heard of Job’s endurance and you have seen the Lord’s purpose, that the Lord is full of compassion and mercy. ²