1Go to now , ye rich men , weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you . 2Your riches are corrupted , and your garments are motheaten . 3Your 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 . 4Behold , 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 . 5Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth , and been wanton ; ye have nourished your hearts , as in a day of slaughter . 6Ye have condemned and killed the just ; and he doth not resist you .
Patience in Suffering
7Be 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 . 8Be ye also patient ; stablish your hearts : for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh . 9Grudge not one against another , brethren , lest ye be condemned : behold , the judge standeth before the door . 10Take , my brethren , the prophets , who have spoken in the name of the Lord , for an example of suffering affliction , and of patience . 11Behold , 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 . 12But 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 .
The Prayer of Faith
13Is any among you afflicted ? let him pray . Is any merry ? let him sing psalms . 14Is 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 : 15And 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 . 16Confess 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 . 17Elias 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 . 18And he prayed again , and the heaven gave rain , and the earth brought forth her fruit .
Restoration of the Erring
19Brethren , if any of you do err from the truth , and one convert him ; 20Let 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 .