James 5
Warning to the
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Go to now, ye rich men, weep and
howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
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Your riches are corrupted, and your
garments are moth-eaten.
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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. Mt. 6.19
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Behold, the hire of the laborers 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 Sab'a-oth. Deut. 24.14, 15
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Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth,
and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of
slaughter.
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Ye have condemned and killed the
just; and he doth not resist you.
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Patience and
Prayer |
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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.
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Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts:
for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
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Grudge not one against another, brethren,
lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the
door.
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Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have
spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering
affliction, and of patience.
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Behold, we count them happy which endure.
Ye have heard of the patience of Job, Job. 1.21, 22 ; 2.10 and
have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of
tender mercy. Ps. 103.8
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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. Mt. 5.34-37
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Is any among you afflicted? let him
pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
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Is any sick among you? let him call for
the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him
with oil Mk. 6.13 in the name of the Lord:
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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.
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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.
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Eli'jah 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. 1 Kgs. 17.1 ; 18.1
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And he prayed again, and the heaven gave
rain, 1 Kgs. 18.42-45 and the earth brought forth her fruit.
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Brethren, if any of you do err from the
truth, and one convert him;
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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. Prov. 10.12
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