[1 Wicked rich men warned of God's judgments 7 Of patience 13 To pray in adversity]
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 moth-eaten.
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; establish 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 yes, 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.
