The Letter from Jacob, Chapter 5
{5:1} Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are
coming on you. {5:2} Your riches are corrupted and your garments are
moth-eaten. {5:3} Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their
corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh
like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days. {5:4}
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you
have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped
have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies. {5:5} You have lived
delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished
your hearts as in a day of slaughter. {5:6} You have condemned, you
have murdered the righteous one. He doesn't resist you.
{5:7} Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord.
Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being
patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain. {5:8} You
also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is
at hand.
{5:9} Don't grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you
won't be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door. {5:10} Take,
brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets
who spoke in the name of the Lord. {5:11} Behold, we call them blessed
who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the
Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
{5:12} But above all things, my brothers, don't swear, neither by
heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your "yes" be
"yes," and your "no," "no;" so that you don't fall [1>]into
hypocrisy.[<1]
{5:13} Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful?
Let him sing praises. {5:14} Is any among you sick? Let him call for
the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him
with oil in the name of the Lord, {5:15} and the prayer of faith will
heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has
committed sins, he will be forgiven. {5:16} Confess your offenses to
one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The
insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective. {5:17}
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that
it might not rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and
six months. {5:18} He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the
earth brought forth its fruit.
{5:19} Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth, and
someone turns him back, {5:20} let him know that he who turns a sinner
from the error of his way will save a soul from death, and will cover
a multitude of sins.
________________________________________________________________________
Footnotes:
[1] {5:12} TR reads "under judgment" instead of "into hypocrisy"
___
This Bible reading mailing list and web site are paid for by donations
marked "HNV project" and payable to:
Rainbow Missions
PO BOX 275
MESA CO 81643-0275
To cancel your free email subscription, please send
email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
unsubscribe hnv
in the body of the message OR go to http://ebible.org/subscribe.htm
