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James 5 :: King James Version (KJV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:1 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:2 - Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:3 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:4 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:5 - Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:6 - Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.

Exhortation

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:7 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:8 - Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:9 - Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:10 - Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:11 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:12 - 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.
(cf. 1Ki 18:41–46 )
Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:13 - Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
Unchecked Copy BoxJas 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:
Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:15 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:16 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:17 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:18 - And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:19 - Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:20 - 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.
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