1Go
to now, ye rich
men, weep
and howl for
your
miseries
that shall
come upon you.
2Your
riches are
corrupted,
and your
garments are
motheaten.
3Your
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.
4Behold,
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.
5Ye
have lived
in pleasure
on the
earth, and
been wanton;
ye have
nourished
your hearts,
as in a day
of
slaughter.
6Ye
have
condemned and killed
the just; and he
doth not
resist you.
7Be
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.
8Be
ye also
patient;
stablish
your hearts:
for the
coming of
the Lord
draweth
nigh.
9Grudge
not one
against
another,
brethren,
lest ye be
condemned:
behold, the
judge
standeth
before the
door.
10Take,
my brethren,
the
prophets,
who have
spoken in
the name of
the Lord,
for an
example of
suffering
affliction,
and of
patience.
11Behold,
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.
12But
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.
13Is
any among
you
afflicted?
let him
pray. Is any
merry? let
him sing
psalms.
14Is
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:
15And
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.
16Confess 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.
17Elias
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.
18And
he prayed
again, and
the heaven
gave rain,
and the
earth
brought
forth her
fruit.
19Brethren,
if any of
you do err
from the
truth, and
one convert
him;
20Let
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.