Godbey - James - 5

5:1  Come now, ye rich, weep mourning over your calamities which are coming on you.

5:2  Your riches are corrupted, and your garments have become moth-eaten:

5:3  your gold and your silver are cankered; and their rust shall be for a witness against you, and eat your flesh like fire. You laid up treasures in the last days.

5:4  Behold, the wages of the laborers having reaped your fields, which is fraudulently kept back by you, is crying out: and the voices of the reapers have come into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

5:5  Ye flourished upon the earth, and were wanton; you nourished your hearts in the day of slaughter.

5:6  You condemned, you murdered the righteous; nothing antagonizes you.

5:7  Therefore, O brethren, suffer long, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer receives the precious fruit of the earth, waiting for it, until he may receive the former and latter rain:

5:8  you also suffer long; establish your hearts; because the coming of the Lord is nigh.

5:9  Do not complain against one another, brethren, in order that you may not be judged: behold, the judge stands before the doors.

5:10  Brethren, receive the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord as an example of suffering evil and longsuffering.

5:11  Behold, we pronounce them happy who have endured: you have heard the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, because the Lord is very merciful, and sympathetic.

5:12  But, my brethren, before all, swear not, neither by heaven, or by earth, or any other oath: but let your conversation be yes yes; and no no; lest you may fall under condemnation.

5:13  Who is afflicted among you? let him pray. Who is merry? let him sing psalms.

5:14  Is any one 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.

5:15  Truly the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up; if he may have committed sins, they shall be forgiven unto him.

5:16  Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, in order that you may be healed: the inward working prayer of a righteous man avails much.

5:17  Elijah was a man of like suffering to us, and he prayed with prayer that it might not rain, and it rained not upon the earth during three years and six months;

5:18  and again he prayed, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

5:19  My brethren, if any one among you may err from the truth, and one may turn him back;

5:20  let him know, that the one having turned a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and hide a multitude of sins.