Worsley - James - 5

5:1  Weep now, ye rich men, and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you.

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

5:3  your gold and silver is cankered, and their rust shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh like fire: ye have been treasuring them up for these last days.

5:4  Behold the hire of the laborers, that reaped your fields, of which they are defrauded by you, crieth out against you: and the complaints of the reapers are come into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

5:5  Ye have lived upon earth delicately and luxuriously; ye fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

5:6  Ye have condemned, ye have murdered the just one, who resisted you not.

5:7  Wait patiently therefore, my brethren, till the coming of the Lord: behold the husbandman expecteth the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it, till he receive the former and the latter rain.

5:8  Be ye also patient, establish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord is near.

5:9  Repine not, my brethren, against each other, that ye be not condemned: behold, the judge is at the door.

5:10  Take for an example of enduring evil and of long-suffering the prophets, who spake in the name of the Lord.

5:11  Behold, we account those happy, that are patient. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.

5:12  But above all, my brethren, swear not; neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your nay nay; that ye may not fall under condemnation.

5:13  Is any among you afflicted? let him pray: is any chearful? let him sing psalms.

5:14  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:

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

5:16  Confess your faults one to another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed: the fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

5:17  Elias was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained not upon the land for three years and six months:

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

5:19  Brethren, if any among you be seduced from the truth, and one convert him;

5:20  let him know that he, who turneth back a sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.