1: Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your
miseries that shall come upon you. |
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2: Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
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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. |
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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.
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5: Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye
have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. |
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6: Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist
you. |
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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.
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8: Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of
the Lord draweth nigh. |
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9: Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be
condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door. |
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10: Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name
of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
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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. |
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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. |
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13: Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let
him sing psalms. |
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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: |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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18: And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth
brought forth her fruit. |
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19: Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one
convert him; |
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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. |