[1] Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on
you. [2] Your riches are corrupted and your garments 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. [4] Behold, the wages of the laborers who
mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cries out, and the
cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
[5] You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You
have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter. [6] You have
condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn`t resist you. [7]
Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the
farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it,
until it receives the early and late rain. [8] You also be patient.
Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand. [9] Don`t
grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won`t be judged.
Behold, the judge stands at the door. [10] Take, brothers, for an example
of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the
Lord. [11] Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the
patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the end, and how the Lord is
full of compassion and mercy. [12] But above all things, my brothers, don`t
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 don`t fall into hypocrisy.
[13] Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him
sing praises. [14] Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of
the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the
name of the Lord, [15] and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick,
and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, it will be
forgiven him. [16] Confess your offenses one to another, and pray one for
another, that you may be healed. The effective, earnest prayer of a
righteous man is powerfully effective. [17] Elijah was a man with a nature
like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn`t
rain on the earth for three years and six months. [18] He prayed again, and
the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth its fruit. [19] Brothers, if
any among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, [20] let
him know, that he who converts a sinner from the error of his way will save
a soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.
