James 5

¹ Come now, you rich, lament, howling for your wretchedness which is coming on you! ² Your riches have rotted and your garments have become food for moths. ³ Your gold and silver corrode and their venom will be for a testimony against you, and the venom will be eating your flesh as fire. You hoard in the last days. ⁴ Lo! the wage of the workers, who mow your country places, which has been withheld by you, is crying, and the imploring of the reapers has entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts. ⁵ You luxuriate on the earth, and squander. You nourish your hearts as in a day of slaughter. ⁶ You convict, you murder the just; he is not resisting you. ⁷ Be patient, then, brethren, till the presence of the Lord. Lo! the farmer is waiting for the precious fruit of the land, being patient about it, till it should be getting the early and late showers. ⁸ You also, then, be patient; establish your hearts, for the presence of the Lord is near. ⁹ Be not groaning, brethren, against one another, lest you may be judged. Lo! the Judge stands before the doors. ¹⁰ Be taking, my brethren, the example of suffering evil and patience you have: the prophets who speak in the name of the Lord. ¹¹ Lo! we are counting those happy who endure. You hear of the endurance of Job, and you perceived the consummation of the Lord, for very compassionate and pitiful is the Lord. ¹² Now before all, my brethren, do not be swearing, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor any other oath. Now let your "yes" be "yes", and "no" be "no", lest you should be falling under judging. ¹³ Is anyone suffering evil among you? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him play music. ¹⁴ Is anyone infirm among you? Let him call to him the elders of the ecclesia, and let them pray over him, rubbing him with olive oil in the name of the Lord. ¹⁵ And the vow of faith will be saving the faltering and the Lord will be rousing him up, and, if he should have done sins, it will be forgiven him. ¹⁶ Then confess sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The operative petition of the just is availing much. ¹⁷ Elijah was a man of like emotions with us, and he prays in prayer for it not to rain, and it does not rain on the land three years and six months. ¹⁸ And again he prays, and heaven gives a shower and the earth germinates her fruit. ¹⁹ My brethren, if anyone among you should be led astray from the way of the truth, and someone should be turning him back, ²⁰ let him know that he who turns back a sinner out of the deception of his way will be saving his soul from death and will be covering a multitude of sins.