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James 5

2 He threateneth the wicked rich men, 7 Exhorteth unto patience, 12 To beware of swearing. 16 One to knowledge his faults to another, 20 And one to labour to bring another to the truth.
1.Go to now, ye rich men: weep, and ahowl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2.Your riches are corrupt: & your garments are moth-eaten.
3.Your gold and silver is cankred, and the rust of them shalbe a bwitness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. *Ye have heaped up treasure for the clast days.
4.Behold, the hire of the labourers, which have reaped 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 hosts.
5.Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, & in wantonness. Ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of dslaughter.
6.Ye have condemned and have killed the just, and he hath not resisted you.
7.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 eformer, and the latter rain.
8.Be ye also patient therefore and settle your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth near.
9.fGrudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
10.Take, my brethren, the Prophets for an example of suffering adversity, and of long patience, which have spoken in the Name of the Lord.
11.Behold, we count them blessed which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have known what end the Lord made. For the Lord is very pitiful and merciful.
12.But before all things, my brethren, *swear not, neither by heaven, nor by earth, nor by any other oath: but let your gyea, be yea, and your nay, nay, lest ye fall into ^condemnation.
13.Is any among you afflicted? Let him pray. Is any merry? Let him sing.
14.Is any sick among you? Let him call for the hElders of the Church, and let them pray for him, and anoint him with *ioil in the kName of the Lord.
15.And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up: and if he have committed sin, it shalbe forgiven him.
16.Acknowledge lyour faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed: for the prayer of a righteous man availeth much, if it be fervent.
17.*Helias 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 for three years and six months.
18.And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
19.Brethren, if any of you hath erred from the truth, and some man hath converted him,
20.Let him know that he which hath converted the sinner from going astray out of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

Notes

1-a.
He menaces them with the vengeance of God, which shall not only make them to weep, but to howl and despair.
3-*.
Rom. 2.5
3-b.
And kindle the wrath of God against you.
3-c.
To suffice till the end of the world.
5-d.
Which were the days of the sacrifices, or feasts when they used to banquet and feed more abundantly than other days.
7-e.
Which is when the corn is sown, and a little before it is mown.
9-f.
Be not grieved nor ask vengeance.
12-*.
Mat. 5.34
12-^.
Or, hypocrisy.
12-g.
That which must be affirmed, affirm it simply and without oath: likewise that which must be denied: by this he taketh not from the magistrate his authority who may require an oath for the maintenance of justice, judgement, and truth.
14-*.
Mk. 6.13
14-h.
The gift of healing was then in the Church.
14-i.
Which in those days was a sign of the gift of healing, but now the gift being taken away, the sign is to no use.
14-k.
In calling on the Name of the Lord.
16-l.
Open that which grieveth you, that a remedy may be found: and this is commanded both for him that complaineth ,and for him that heareth that the one should show his grief to the other.
17-*.
1 Kings 17.1, Eccle. 48.3, Luke 4.25