James 5
1 Come now, you rich, weep and cry aloud for your miseries that are coming on you.
COME now, ye rich men, let your tears run down, howling over your miseries which are coming upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
Your wealth is corrupted, and your robes are moth-eaten.
3 Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.
Your gold and silver is cankered with rust; and the rust upon them is a testimony against you, and shall eat into your flesh as fire. Ye have heaped up treasures in the last days.
4 Look, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.
Behold, the wages of the workmen who have mowed down your fields, which is kept back by you from them, crieth out: and the loud moans of the reapers are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
5 You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.
Ye have gormandized upon the earth, and lived in every luxury: ye have pampered your hearts, as in a day of feasting on the victim slain.
6 You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He does not resist you.
Ye have falsely condemned, ye have murdered the just man; nor doth he resist you.
7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Look, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, in patient expectation for it, till it receives the former and the latter rain.
8 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near.
Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
9 Do not grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won't be judged. Look, the judge stands at the door.
Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest be ye condemned: lo! the judge standeth at the gates.
10 Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
My brethren, take a pattern for suffering affliction, and patience from the prophets, who have spoken to you in the name of the Lord.
11 Look, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
Behold, we esteem those blessed who patiently endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; for the Lord is full of bowels of mercy, and tenderly compassionate.
12 But above all things, my brothers, do not swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your "yes" be "yes," and your "no," "no;" so that you do not fall under judgment.
But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your no, no; that ye fall not under condemnation.
13 Is anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praises.
Is any man among you under afflictions? let him pray. Is any man happy in mind? let him sing psalms.
14 Is anyone among you sick? He should call for the elders of the church, and they should pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
Is any man sick among you? let him send for the presbyters 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 will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
and the prayer of faith shall recover the sick man, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he hath committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
16 Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
Confess your offences one to another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. The energetic prayer of a righteous man is mightily prevalent.
17 Elijah was a human being with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.
Elias was a man of like feelings with us, and he prayed fervently that it should not rain; and there fell no rain on the earth during three years and six months.
18 He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth its fruit.
And he prayed again, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth shot up its fruit.
19 My brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back,
Brethren, if any man among you should have erred from the truth, and one convert him;
20 let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.
let him know, that he that converteth a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.
