¹ Go to now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that will come on [you]. ² Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. ³ Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them will be a witness against you, and will eat your flesh as it were fire. You have heaped treasure together for the last days. ⁴ See, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, cries: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. ⁵ You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; you have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. ⁶ You have condemned and killed the just; and he does not resist you. ⁷ Be patient therefore, brothers, to the coming of the Lord. See, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until+ he receive the early and latter rain. ⁸ Be you also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draws near. ⁹ Grudge not one against another+ , brothers, in case you be condemned: see, the judge stands before the door. ¹⁰ Take, my brothers, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience. ¹¹ See, we count them happy which endure. You 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 brothers, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yes be yes; and your nay, nay; in case you 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 will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they will be forgiven him. ¹⁶ Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. ¹⁷ Elijah 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. ¹⁸ And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forward her fruit. ¹⁹ brothers, if any of you do stray from the truth, and one convert him; ²⁰ Let him know, that he which transforms the sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death, and will hide a multitude of sins.