Go to now,
ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that
shall come upon you.
02 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments
are motheaten.
03 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.
04 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.
05 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and
been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in
a day of slaughter.
06 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he
doth not resist you.
07 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.
08 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for
the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
09 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.
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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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