Bible, King James Version
James
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.
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