James 5
1 Weep now, ye rich men, and howl for your miseries which are coming upon 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 are moth-eaten:
For your riches lie rotting, and your clothing has become moth-eaten.
3 your gold and silver is cankered, and their rust shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh like fire: ye have been treasuring them up for these 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 hire of the laborers, that reaped your fields, of which they are defrauded by you, crieth out against you: and the complaints of the reapers are 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 have lived upon earth delicately and luxuriously; ye fattened your hearts as in a 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 Ye have condemned, ye have murdered the just one, who resisted you not.
You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous man unresisting!
7 Wait patiently therefore, my brethren, till the coming of the Lord: behold the husbandman expecteth the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it, till he receive the former and the 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 Be ye also patient, establish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord is near.
So you also must be patient. Stablish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord is at hand!
9 Repine not, my brethren, against each other, that ye be not condemned: behold, the judge is at the door.
Do not make complaints against each other, brothers, lest you yourselves be condemned. Behold the Judge is standing before the very door!
10 Take for an example of enduring evil and of long-suffering the prophets, who spake in the name of the Lord.
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 account those happy, that are patient. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.
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 above all, my brethren, swear not; neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your nay nay; that ye may not 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 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray: is any chearful? let him sing psalms.
Is any one of you in trouble? Let him pray.
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:
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 and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven 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 Confess your faults one to another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed: the fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth 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 Elias was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained not upon the land for 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 he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth put forth its fruit.
Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
19 Brethren, if any among you be seduced from the truth, and one convert him;
My brothers, if any one of you strays from the truth, and some one brings him back,
20 let him know that he, who turneth back a sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall cover 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.
