James 5
1 Come now, ye rich, weep mourning over your calamities which are coming on you.
Go to now, you rich men! Weep aloud, howl for the miseries which are about to come upon you!
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments have become moth-eaten:
For your riches lie rotting, and your clothing has become moth-eaten.
3 your gold and your silver are cankered; and their rust shall be for a witness against you, and eat your flesh like fire. You laid up treasures in the last days.
Your gold and silver are rusted. and their rust will be for a testimony against you, and it will eat your flesh. For you have been storing up fire in these last days!
4 Behold, the wages of the laborers having reaped your fields, which is fraudulently kept back by you, is crying out: and the voices of the reapers have come into the ears of the Lord of hosts.
Look! the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have been keeping back by fraud, are crying aloud! And the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth!
5 Ye flourished upon the earth, and were wanton; you nourished your hearts in the day of slaughter.
You have lived luxuriously on earth, you have taken your pleasure, you have fattened your hearts for a day of slaughter.
6 You condemned, you murdered the righteous; nothing antagonizes you.
You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous man unresisting!
7 Therefore, O brethren, suffer long, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer receives the precious fruit of the earth, waiting for it, until he may receive the former and latter rain:
Be patient, then, brothers, till the coming of the Lord. Behold the farmer who waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it gets the early and the latter rains.
8 you also suffer long; establish your hearts; because the coming of the Lord is nigh.
So you also must be patient. Stablish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord is at hand!
9 Do not complain against one another, brethren, in order that you may not be judged: behold, the judge stands before the doors.
Do not make complaints against each other, brothers, lest you yourselves be condemned. Behold the Judge is standing before the very door!
10 Brethren, receive the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord as an example of suffering evil and longsuffering.
Take, my brothers, for an example the suffering and the patience of the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
11 Behold, we pronounce them happy who have endured: you have heard the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, because the Lord is very merciful, and sympathetic.
Remember we count those that were stedfast happy. You have heard of the stedfastness of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord with him, seen how the Lord is full of tenderness.
12 But, my brethren, before all, swear not, neither by heaven, or by earth, or any other oath: but let your conversation be yes yes; and no no; lest you may fall under condemnation.
Again, above all things, my brothers, swear not at all, neither by the heavens, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath. Let your "yes" be "yes," and your "no," "no," so you will not fall under condemnation.
13 Who is afflicted among you? let him pray. Who is merry? let him sing psalms.
Is any one of you in trouble? Let him pray.
14 Is any one 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.
Is any in good spirits? Let him sing unto his harp. Is any one of you ill? Let him send for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, after anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;
15 Truly the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up; if he may have committed sins, they shall be forgiven unto him.
and the prayer of faith will restore the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, it will be forgiven him.
16 Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, in order that you may be healed: the inward working prayer of a righteous man avails much.
So confess your sins one to another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. For the fervent prayer of a righteous man is mighty in its working.
17 Elijah was a man of like suffering to us, and he prayed with prayer that it might not rain, and it rained not upon the earth during three years and six months;
Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
18 and again he prayed, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
19 My brethren, if any one among you may err from the truth, and one may turn him back;
My brothers, if any one of you strays from the truth, and some one brings him back,
20 let him know, that the one having turned a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and hide a multitude of sins.
let him know that he who brings a sinner back from the error of his ways, saves his soul from death, and hides a multitude of sins.
