THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF JAMES 5

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1 Go to now ye rich men weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you ⚑

2 Your riches are corrupted and your garments are motheaten ⚑

3 Your gold and silver is cankered and the rust of them shall be a witness against you and shall eat your flesh as it were fire Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days ⚑

4 Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields which is of you kept back by fraud crieth and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth ⚑

5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth and been wanton ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter ⚑

6 Ye have condemned and killed the just and he doth not resist you ⚑

7 Be patient therefore brethren unto the coming of the Lord Behold the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth and hath long patience for it until he receive the early and latter rain ⚑

8 Be ye also patient stablish your hearts for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh ⚑

9 Grudge not one against another brethren lest ye be condemned behold the judge standeth before the door ⚑

10 Take my brethren the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord for an example of suffering affliction and of patience ⚑

11 Behold we count them happy which endure Ye have heard of the patience of Job and have seen the end of the Lord that the Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy ⚑

12 But above all things my brethren swear not neither by heaven neither by the earth neither by any other oath but let your yea be yea and your nay nay lest ye fall into condemnation ⚑

13 Is any among you afflicted let him pray Is any merry let him sing psalms ⚑

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 ⚑

15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick and the Lord shall raise him up and if he have committed sins they shall be forgiven him ⚑

16 Confess your faults one to another and pray one for another that ye may be healed The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much ⚑

17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months ⚑

18 And he prayed again and the heaven gave rain and the earth brought forth her fruit ⚑

19 Brethren if any of you do err from the truth and one convert him ⚑

20 Let him know that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death and shall hide a multitude of sins ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain