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James 5

Misuse of Riches

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 aCome now,  byou rich,  cweep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you.

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 aYour riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten.

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Your gold and your silver have rusted; and their rust will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire. It is  ain the last days that you have stored up your treasure!

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Behold,  athe pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against you; and  bthe outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of  cthe Lord of  1Sabaoth.

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You have  alived luxuriously on the earth and led a life of wanton pleasure; you have  1fattened your hearts in  ba day of slaughter.

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You have condemned and  1 aput to death  bthe righteous man; he does not resist you.

Exhortation

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Therefore be patient,  abrethren,  buntil the coming of the Lord.  cThe farmer waits for the precious produce of the soil, being patient about it, until  1it gets  dthe early and late rains.

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 aYou too be patient;  bstrengthen your hearts, for  cthe coming of the Lord is  dnear.

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 aDo not  1complain,  bbrethren, against one another, so that you yourselves may not be judged; behold,  cthe Judge is standing  2 dright at the  3door.

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As an example,  abrethren, of suffering and patience, take  bthe prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

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We count those  ablessed who endured. You have heard of  bthe  1endurance of Job and have seen  cthe  2outcome of the Lord's dealings, that  dthe Lord is full of compassion and is merciful.

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But above all,  amy brethren,  bdo not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath; but  1your yes is to be yes, and your no, no, so that you may not fall under judgment.

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Is anyone among you  asuffering?  bThen he must pray. Is anyone cheerful? He is to  csing praises.

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Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for  athe elders of the church and they are to pray over him,  1 banointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;

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and the  aprayer  1offered in faith will  2 brestore the one who is sick, and the Lord will  craise him up, and if he has committed sins,  3they will be forgiven him.

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Therefore,  aconfess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be  bhealed.  cThe effective  1prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.

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Elijah was  aa man with a nature like ours, and  bhe prayed  1earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for  cthree years and six months.

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Then he  aprayed again, and  bthe  1sky  2poured rain and the earth produced its fruit.

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My brethren,  aif any among you strays from  bthe truth and one turns him back,

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let him know that  1he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will  asave his soul from death and will  bcover a multitude of sins.



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