James 5
5
Warning to the Rich
1Come now, you rich # Pr 11:28; Lk 6:24 people! Weep and wail over the miseries that are coming on you. 2Your wealth is ruined and your clothes are moth-eaten. # Jb 13:28; Is 50:9; Mt 6:19-20 3Your silver and gold are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You stored up treasure in the last days! # Rm 2:5; Jms 5:8 4Look! The pay that you withheld from the workers # Lv 19:13; Jb 24:10-11; Jr 22:13; Mal 3:5 who reaped your fields cries out, and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts. # Gk Sabaoth ; this word is a transliteration of the Hb word for Hosts, or Armies. # Dt 24:15; Rm 9:29 5You have lived luxuriously on the land and have indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts # Jb 21:13; Am 6:1 for # Or hearts in the day of slaughter. # Jr 12:3; 25:34 6You have condemned — you have murdered — the righteous man; he does not resist you. # Heb 10:38; Jms 4:2
Waiting for the Lord
7Therefore, brothers, be patient until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth and is patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains. # Dt 11:14; Jr 5:24; Hos 6:3 8You also must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near. # Rm 13:11; Php 4:5; 1Pt 4:7
9Brothers, do not complain about one another, so that you will not be judged. Look, the judge stands at the door! # Mt 24:33; 1Co 4:5; Jms 4:12; 1Pt 4:5
10Brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the Lord’s name as an example of suffering and patience. 11See, we count as blessed those who have endured. # Or have persevered You have heard of Job’s endurance # Jb 1:21-22; 2:10; 42:10-12 and have seen the outcome from the Lord. The Lord is very compassionate and merciful. # Ex 34:6; Nm 14:18; Mt 5:10
Truthful Speech
12Now above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath. # Mt 5:33-37; 23:16-22; Mk 7:9-13 Your “yes” must be “yes,” and your “no” must be “no,” so that you won’t fall under judgment. # Other mss read fall into hypocrisy
Effective Prayer
13Is anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praises. # Ps 50:15; Col 3:16 14Is anyone among you sick? He should call for the elders of the church, and they should pray over him after anointing him with olive oil in the name of the Lord. # Mk 6:13; 16:18 15The prayer of faith will save the sick person, and the Lord will restore him to health; if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. # Is 33:24; Mt 9:2; Mk 2:5; Lk 24:47 16Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The urgent request of a righteous person is very powerful in its effect. # Nm 11:2; Mt 3:6; Jn 9:31; 1Pt 2:24 17Elijah was a man with a nature like ours; yet he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the land. # 1Kg 17:1; 18:1; Lk 4:25; Ac 14:15 18Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the land produced its fruit. # 1Kg 18:41-45; Jms 3:17-18
19My brothers, if any among you strays from the truth, # Mt 18:15; Gl 6:1; Jms 3:14 and someone turns him back, # Ps 51:13; Dn 12:3; Mal 2:6; Lk 1:16 20let him know that whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his life from death and cover a multitude of sins. # Pr 10:12; Rm 11:14; 1Pt 4:8
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Jacob 5
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1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. 2Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten. 3Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days. 4Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.#5:4 Greek: Sabaoth (or Hebrew: Tze’va’ot) 5You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter. 6You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.
7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain. 8You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
9Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door. 10Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. 11Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
12 But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear—not by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”, so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.#5:12 TR reads “under judgment” instead of “into hypocrisy”
13 Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises. 14Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; 15and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 16Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective. 17Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months. 18He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.
19Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back, 20let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
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