1 L isten, you rich men! Cry about the troubles that will come to you.

Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

2 Y our riches are worth nothing. Your fine clothes are full of moth holes.

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

3 Y our gold and silver have rusted. Their rust will speak against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have saved riches for yourselves for the last days.

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 S ee! The men working in your fields are crying against you because you have kept back part of their pay. Their cries have been heard by the Lord Who hears His people.

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 Y ou have had everything while you lived on the earth and have enjoyed its fun. You have made your hearts fat and are ready to be killed as an animal is killed.

Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

6 Y ou have killed men who are right with God who were not making it hard for you. The Lord Will Come Again

Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.

7 C hristian brothers, be willing to wait for the Lord to come again. Learn from the farmer. He waits for the good fruit from the earth until the early and late rains come.

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 Y ou must be willing to wait also. Be strong in your hearts because the Lord is coming again soon.

Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

9 D o not complain about each other, Christian brothers. Then you will not be judged. See! The Judge is standing at the door.

Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.

10 S ee how the early preachers spoke for the Lord by their suffering and by being willing to wait.

Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

11 W e think of those who stayed true to Him as happy even though they suffered. You have heard how long Job waited. You have seen what the Lord did for him in the end. The Lord is full of loving-kindness and pity.

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 M y Christian brothers, do not swear. Do not use heaven or earth or anything else to swear by. If you mean yes, say yes. If you mean no, say no. You will be guilty for saying anything more. The Power of Prayer in Healing

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 I s anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone happy? He should sing songs of thanks to God.

Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

14 I s anyone among you sick? He should send for the church leaders and they should pray for him. They should pour oil on him in the name of the Lord.

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 T he prayer given in faith will heal the sick man, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.

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 T ell your sins to each other. And pray for each other so you may be healed. The prayer from the heart of a man right with God has much power.

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 E lijah was a man as we are. He prayed that it might not rain. It did not rain on the earth for three and one-half years.

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.

18 T hen he prayed again that it would rain. It rained much and the fields of the earth gave fruit. Bring Back Those Who Are Lost in Sin

And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

19 M y Christian brothers, if any of you should be led away from the truth, let someone turn him back again.

Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;

20 T hat person should know that if he turns a sinner from the wrong way, he will save the sinner’s soul from death and many sins will be forgiven.

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.