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James 5
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your
miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are
motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of
them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat
your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure
together for the last days.
4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped
down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud,
crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are
entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been
wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of
slaughter.
6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth
not resist you.
7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of
the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the
precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience
for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the
coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye
be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the
door.
10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken
in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering
affliction, and of patience.
11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have
heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end
of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of
tender mercy.
12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not,
neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by
any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your
nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any
merry? let him sing psalms.
14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders
of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing
him with oil in the name of the Lord:
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and
the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed
sins, they shall be forgiven him.
16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one
for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual
fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we
are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain:
and it rained not on the earth by the space of three
years and six months.
18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and
the earth brought forth her fruit.
19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and
one convert him;
20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner
from the error of his way shall save a soul from
death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
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