1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl over the miseries that are coming upon you.
2 Your riches have decayed, and your garments have become moth-eaten.
3 Your gold and silver are rusted through, and their rust will testify against you and devour your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have laid up treasure.
4 Behold, the pay of the workmen who reaped your fields, of which you have defrauded them, cries out; and the cries of those who harvested have come into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
5 You have lived softly on the earth and indulged yourselves; you have fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
6 You have condemned, you have killed the righteous one; he offers you no resistance.
7 Have patience, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Look: the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the ground, being patient over it until it gets the early and the latter rain.
8 You too be patient; make your hearts firm, because the coming of the Lord has drawn near.
9 Brothers, do not groan against one another, so that you will not be condemned. See, the Judge is standing at the doors.
10 My brothers, take as a pattern of suffering hardship and of patience the prophets who spoke in the Lord's name.
11 See, we call blessed those who endure. You have heard of Job's endurance and have seen the outcome the Lord gave, for the Lord is full of pity and compassionate.
12 Above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath. Let your yes be yes and your no be no, so that you do not fall into condemnation.
13 Is anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praise.
14 Is anyone among you weak with illness? Let him call to himself the elders of the church, and let them pray over him after anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
15 And the prayer of faith will save the one who is ailing, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
16 Confess your faults to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man, when it is at work, has great strength.
17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed with prayer that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.
18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth sprouted its fruit.
19 Brothers, if any among you is led astray from the truth and someone turns him around,
20 let him be sure that whoever turns a sinner back from his wandering way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.