James 5
1 Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
Go to now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you.
2 Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes.
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
3 Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure in the last days.
Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days.
4 Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
Behold, the hire of the labourers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
5 You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.
Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.
6 You have condemned and murdered the righteous, who did not resist you.
Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous [one]; he doth not resist you.
7 Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains.
Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter rain.
8 You, too, be patient and strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near.
Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
9 Do not complain about one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged. Look, the Judge is standing at the door!
Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that ye be not judged: behold, the judge standeth before the doors.
10 Brothers, as an example of patience in affliction, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
Take, brethren, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spake in the name of the Lord.
11 See how blessed we consider those who have persevered. You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen the outcome from the Lord. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
Behold, we call them blessed which endured: ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, how that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful.
12 Above all, my brothers, do not swear, not by heaven or earth or by any other oath. Simply let your “Yes” be yes, and your “No,” no, so that you will not fall under judgment.
But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay; that ye fall not under judgment.
13 Is any one of you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praises.
Is any among you suffering? let him pray. Is any cheerful? let him sing praise.
14 Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord.
Is any among you sick? 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 offered in faith will restore the one who is sick. The Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.
and the prayer of faith shall save him that is sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him.
16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.
Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.
17 Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.
Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months.
18 Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth yielded its crops.
And he prayed again; and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
19 My brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring him back,
My brethren, if any among you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
20 consider this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and cover over a multitude of sins.
let him know, that he which converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.
