James Chapter 5
(Original 1611 KJV Bible)

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1 Wicked rich men are to feare Gods vengeance. 7 We ought to be patient in afflictions, after the example of the Prophets, and Iob: 12 to forbeare swearing, 13 to pray in aduersitie, to sing in prosperitie: 16 to acknowledge mutually our seueral faults, to pray one for another, 19 and to reduce a straying brother to the trueth.

¹ Goe to now, yee rich men, weepe and howle for your miseries that shall come vpon you.

² Your riches are corrupted, and your garments motheaten:

³ Your gold and siluer is cankered, and the rust of them shall bee a witnesse against you, and shall eate your flesh as it were fire: ye haue heaped treasure together for the last dayes.

⁴ Beholde, the hire of the labourers which haue reaped downe your fieldes, which is of you kept backe by fraud, cryeth: and the cryes of them which haue reaped, are entred into the eares of the Lord of Sabaoth.

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⁵ Yee haue liued in pleasure on the earth, and bene wanton: ye haue nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter:

⁶ Yee haue condemned, and killed the iust, and he doth not resist you.

⁷ Be patient therefore, brethren, vnto the comming of the Lord: behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, vntill hee receiue the early and latter raine.⁷

⁸ Be yee also patient; stablish your hearts: for the comming of the Lorde draweth nigh.

⁹ Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the Iudge standeth before the doore.⁹

¹⁰ Take, my brethren, the Prophets, who haue spoken in the Name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

¹¹ Beholde, wee count them happie which endure. Ye haue heard of the patience of Iob, and haue seene the end of the Lord: that the Lord is very pitifull and of tender mercie.

¹² But aboue all things, my brethren, sweare not, neither by heauen, neither by the earth, neither by any other othe: but let your yea, be yea, and your nay, nay: lest yee fall into condemnation.

¹³ Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing Psalmes.

¹⁴ Is any sicke among you? let him call for the Elders of the Church, and let them pray ouer him, anointing him with oyle in the Name of the Lord:

¹⁵ And the prayer of Faith shall saue the sicke, and the Lord shall raise him vp: and if hee haue committed sinnes, they shall be forgiuen him.

¹⁶ Confesse your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that yee may bee healed: the effectuall feruent prayer of a righteous man auaileth much.

¹⁷ Elias was a man subiect to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not raine: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three yeeres and sixe monethes.¹⁷

¹⁸ And hee prayed againe, and the heauen gaue raine, and the earth brought foorth her fruit.

¹⁹ Brethren, if any of you doe erre from the trueth, and one conuert him,

²⁰ Let him know, that hee which conuerteth the sinner from the errour of his way, shall saue a soule from death, and shall hide a multitude of sinnes.

James Chapter 5 Sidenote References (from Original 1611 KJV Bible):

⁷ Or, be long patient, or suffer with long patience
⁹ Or, groane, or grieue not.
¹⁷ Or, in his prayer.

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