The Bible
James Chapter 5
1Come now, you-all rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you-all. 2Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten. 3Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be as a testimony against you-all and will eat your flesh like fire. You-all have laid up your treasure in the last days. 4Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you-all have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of ForeverOne of Armies. 5You-all have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You-all have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter. 6You-all have condemned and murdered the righteous; who don't resist you-all.
7So be patient 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 [rains]. 8You-all also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord draws near.
9Don't grumble, brothers, against one another, so you-all won't be judged. Look! The judge stands at the door. 10As an example of suffering and perseverance, brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the name of ForeverOne. 11See, we call them happy who endured. You-all have heard of the perseverance of Job and have seen ForeverOne in the outcome, and how ForeverOne is full of compassion and mercy.
12But above all things, my brothers, don't swear-an-oath. Not by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath; but let your "yes" be "yes", and your "no", "no", so that you-all don't fall into hypocrisy.
13Is anyone among you-all suffering? Let them pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let them sing praises. 14Is anyone among you-all sick? Let them call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord, 15and the prayer of faith will heal the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise them up. If they have fallen short, they will be forgiven. 16So confess your shortcomings to one another and pray for one another, that you-all may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective. 17Elijah was a human with a nature like ours, and prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months. 18Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.
19Brothers, if anyone among you-all wanders from the truth and someone turns them back, 20let them know that whoever turns a shortcomer from the error of their way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of shortcomings.
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