| Chapter 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
