1   Go to now, ye rich, ^note weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you. 2   Your riches ^note are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3   Your gold and silver is cankered, and the canker of them ^note shall be a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire: ye have laid up treasure in the last days. 4   Behold the hire of your labourers who have reaped your fields, which is kept back by you, crieth: ^note and the cries of them who have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabbaoth. 5   Ye have lived delicately on earth, and been wanton; ye have cherished

your hearts, ^note as in a day of sacrifice. 6   Ye have condemned, ye have killed the just: ^note he doth not resist you. 7   Be patient, therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit ^note of the earth, and hath patience for it, till he receive the early and the latter rain. 8   Be ye also patient, stablish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord ^note is nigh. 9   Murmur not one against another, ^note 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 ^note of suffering, affliction, and of patience. 11   Behold, we count them happy that have endured. ^note Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord: for the Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy. 12   But above all things, my brethren, swear not, ^note neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor 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 chearful? let him sing psalms. 14   Is any among you sick? let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with

oil ^note in the name of the Lord: 15   And the prayer ^note 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 ^note one to another, brethren, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed: the fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. 17   Elijah was a man of like passions ^note with us; and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the land for three years and six months. 18   And he prayed again, ^note and the heaven gave rain, and so the land gave forth her fruit.

19   Brethren, if any one among you err from the truth, and one convert him, ^note 20   Let him know, that he who converteth a sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul ^note from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

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