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chapter 5
1
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now, ye rich men, weep and howl in your miseries, which 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 for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh like fire.
You have stored up to yourselves wrath against the last days.
4 Behold the hire of the labourers, who have reaped
down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry
of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
5 You have feasted upon earth: and in riotousness you
have nourished your hearts, in the day of slaughter.
6 You have condemned and put to death the Just One, and
he resisted you not.
7 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of
the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth:
patiently bearing till he receive the early and latter rain.
8 Be you therefore also patient, and strengthen your
hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
9 Grudge not, brethren, one against another, that you
may not be judged. Behold the judge standeth before the door.
10 Take, my brethren, for an example of suffering evil,
of labour and patience, the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord.
11 Behold, we account them blessed who have endured.
You have heard of the patience of Job, and you have seen the end of the Lord,
that the Lord is merciful and compassionate.
12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not,
neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath. But let your speech
be, yea, yea: no, no: that you fall not under judgment.
13 Is any of you sad? Let him pray. Is he cheerful in
mind? Let him sing.
14 Is any man sick among you? Let him bring in the
priests 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 man: and
the Lord shall raise him up: and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven him.
16 Confess therefore your sins one to another: and pray
one for another, that you may be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man
availeth much.
17 Elias was a man passible like unto us: and with
prayer he prayed that it might not rain upon the earth, and it rained not for
three years and six months.
18 And he prayed again: and the heaven gave rain, and
the earth brought forth her fruit.
19 My brethren, if any of you err from the truth, and
one convert him:
20 He must know that he who causeth a sinner to be
converted from the error of his way, shall save his soul from death, and shall
cover a multitude of sins.
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