JAMES CHAPTER V.

[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.