Study Desk

How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth:

When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.

You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction.

Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come.

Is anyone among you ill? let him send for the rulers of the church; and let them say prayers over him, putting oil on him in the name of the Lord.

And by the prayer of faith the man who is ill will be made well, and he will be lifted up by the Lord, and for any sin which he has done he will have forgiveness.

So then, make a statement of your sins to one another, and say prayers for one another so that you may be made well. The prayer of a good man is full of power in its working.

Elijah was a man of flesh and blood as we are, and he made a strong prayer that there might be no rain; and there was no rain on the earth for three years and six months.

Be certain that he through whom a sinner has been turned from the error of his way, keeps a soul from death and is the cause of forgiveness for sins without number.

And a heritage fair, holy and for ever new, waiting in heaven for you,

Who, by the power of God are kept, through faith, for that salvation, which will be seen at the last day.

You have cause for great joy in this, though it may have been necessary for you to be troubled for a little time, being tested in all sorts of ways,

For so you have the true end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

For the prophets who gave the news of the grace which would come to you, made search with all care for knowledge of this salvation;

And it was made clear to those prophets that they were God's servants not for themselves but for you, to give you word of the things which have now come to your ears from the preachers of the good news through the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven; things which even angels have a desire to see.

So make your minds ready, and keep on the watch, hoping with all your power for the grace which is to come to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

Because it has been said in the Writings, You are to be holy, for I am holy.

And if you give the name of Father to him who, judging every man by his acts, has no respect for a man's position, then go in fear while you are on this earth:

Who was marked out by God before the making of the world, but was caused to be seen in these last times for you,

For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead: