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what
is
your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
15
For that ye
ought
to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
16
But now ye rejoice
in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
17
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth
it
not, to him it is sin.
CHAPTER 5
Go to now,
ye
rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon
you.
2
Your riches
are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
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.
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.
5
Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been
wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
6
Ye have condemned
and
killed
the just;
and
he doth not resist you.
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.
8
Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
9
Grudge
not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
10
Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of
suffering affliction, and of patience.
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.
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.
13
Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
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:
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.
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.
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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And
he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
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Brethren, if any
of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
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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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