James 5
1 O ye rich ones, wail and weep, on account of the miseries that are coming upon you.
Come now, you rich, weep and cry aloud for your miseries that are coming on you.
2 For your wealth is spoiled and putrid; and your garments are moth-eaten:
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
3 and your gold and your silver have contracted rust; and the rust of them will be testimony against you; and it will eat your flesh. Ye have heaped up a fire to you against the latter days.
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 have reaped your ground, which ye have wrongfully retained, crieth out; and the clamor of the reapers hath entered the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Look, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.
5 For ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and revelled, and feasted your bodies as in a day of slaughter.
You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.
6 Ye have condemned and slain the just, and none resisted you.
You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He does not resist you.
7 But, my brethren, be ye patient until the advent of the Lord; like the husbandman, who waiteth for the precious fruits of his ground, and is patient as to them, until he receive the early and the latter rain.
Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Look, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
8 So also be ye patient, and fortify your hearts; for the advent of our Lord draweth nigh
You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near.
9 Be not querulous one against another, my brethren, lest ye be judged: for lo, the judgment, standeth before the door.
Do not grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won't be judged. Look, the judge stands at the door.
10 For patience in your afflictions, my brethren, take to you the example of the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord.
Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
11 For lo, we ascribe blessedness to them who have borne suffering. Ye have heard of the patience of Job; and ye have seen the result which the Lord wrought for him: for the Lord is merciful and compassionate.
Look, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
12 But above all things, my brethren, swear ye not; neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your language be yes, yes, and no, no, lest ye become obnoxious to judgment.
But above all things, my brothers, do not 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 do not fall under judgment.
13 And if any of you shall be in affliction, let him pray; or if he be joyous, let him sing psalms.
Is anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praises.
14 And if one is sick, let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray for him, and anoint him with oil in the name of our Lord:
Is anyone among you sick? He should call for the elders of the congregation, and they should 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 our Lord will raise him up; and if sins have been committed by him, they will be forgiven him.
And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
16 And confess ye your faults one to another, and pray ye one for another, that ye may be healed; for great is the efficacy of the prayer which a righteous man prayeth.
Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
17 Elijah also was a man of sensations like us, and he prayed that rain might not descend upon the earth; and it descended not, for three years and six months.
Elijah was a human being with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.
18 And again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth gave forth its fruits.
He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth its fruit.
19 My brethren, if one of you err from the way of truth, and any one convert him from his error;
My brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back,
20 let him know, that he who turneth the sinner from the error of his way, will resuscitate his soul from death, and will cover the multitude of his sins.
let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.
