Thematic Bible

James 5:1

Come now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you!

James 5:2

Your wealth has become corrupted, and your garments have become moth-eaten.

James 5:3

Your gold and silver are covered with rust, and their rust will be for a witness against you, and will eat your flesh, as fire. Ye laid up treasures in the last days!

James 5:4

Behold, the hire of the workmen who mowed down your fields, which is fraudulently kept back by you, is crying out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

James 5:5

Ye lived luxuriously on the earth, and rioted in pleasure; ye nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.

James 5:6

Ye condemned, ye killed the righteous one; he does not resist you.

James 5:7

Be patient, therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth; being patient over it, until it receives the early and latter rain.

James 5:8

Be ye also patient; establish your hearts, because the coming of the Lord has drawn near.

James 5:9

Murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye be not judged: behold, The Judge has taken His stand before the doors!

James 5:10

Take, brethren, as an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets, who spake in the name of the Lord.

James 5:11

Behold, we pronounce those happy who endured: ye heard of the patience of Job; and ye saw the end of the Lord, that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful.

James 5:12

But above all things, my brethren, swear not, either by Heaven, or by earth, or by any other oath; but let yours be "the yes, yes," and "the no, no"; that ye fall not under condemnation.

James 5:13

Is anyone among you afflicted? let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? let him sing praise.

James 5:14

Is anyone among you sick? let him call for the elders of the assembly; and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil in the name of the Lord;

James 5:15

and the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and, if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him.

James 5:16

Confess, therefore, your sins one to another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. A righteous man's inwrought supplication avails much.

James 5:17

Elijah was a man of like nature with us; and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months;

James 5:18

and again he prayed, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth its fruit.

James 5:19

My brethren, if anyone among you be led astray from the truth, and one convert him;

James 5:20

let him know that he who converted a sinner from the error of his way, will save a soul from death, and cover a multitude of sins.