Jas.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.