| 5:1 | Come now, [you] rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon [you]! |
| 5:2 | Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. |
| 5:3 | Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days. |
| 5:4 | Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. |
| 5:5 | You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury; you have fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter. |
| 5:6 | You have condemned, you have murdered the just; he does not resist you. |
| 5:7 | Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See [how] the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter rain. |
| 5:8 | You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand. |
| 5:9 | Do not grumble against one another, brethren, lest you be condemned. Behold, the Judge is standing at the door! |
| 5:10 | My brethren, take the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord, as an example of suffering and patience. |
| 5:11 | Indeed we count them blessed who endure. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and seen the end [intended by] the Lordthat the Lord is very compassionate and merciful. |
| 5:12 | But above all, my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath. But let your "Yes," be "Yes," and [your] "No," "No," lest you fall into judgment. |
| 5:13 | Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing psalms. |
| 5:14 | Is anyone among you sick? 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. |
| 5:15 | And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. |
| 5:16 | Confess [your] trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. |
| 5:17 | Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. |
| 5:18 | And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit. |
| 5:19 | Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, |
| 5:20 | let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins. |
James 5 - New King James Version
