James, Chapter 5

1. Go on now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.    2. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.    3. Your gold and silver is spoiled; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped treasure together for the last days.    4. Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped your fields, which are by you kept back by fraud, cry out: and the cries of those who have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.    5. You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and in luxury; you have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.    6. You have condemned and killed the just; and he does not resist you.    7. Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and latter rain.    8. Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is drawing near.    9. Do not grumble against one another, brethren, lest you be condemned: behold, the judge stands before the door.    10. Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, as an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.    11. Behold, we consider them happy who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the purpose of the Lord; that the Lord is full of compassion, and of tender mercy.    12. But above all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yes be yes; and your no, no; so that you do not fall into condemnation.    13. Is any among you suffering? 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 has committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.    16. Confess your faults to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective fervent prayer of a righteous man accomplishes much.    17. Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it did not rain on the earth for a period of three years and six months.    18. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth its fruit.    19. Brethren, if any of you errs from the truth, and one converts him;    20. Let him know, that he who converts the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.