James 5:1–20

¹Come, now, ​YOU​ rich [men], weep, howling over ​YOUR​ miseries that are coming upon ​YOU.²YOUR​ riches have rotted, and ​YOUR​ outer garments have become moth‐eaten.³YOUR​ gold and silver are rusted away, and their rust will be as a witness against ​YOU​ and will eat ​YOUR​ fleshy parts. Something like fire is what ​YOU​ have stored up in the last days.⁴Look! The wages due the workers who harvested ​YOUR​ fields but which are held up by ​YOU, keep crying out, and the calls for help on the part of the reapers have entered into the ears of Jehovah of armies.⁵YOU​ have lived in luxury upon the earth and have gone in for sensual pleasure. YOU​ have fattened ​YOUR​ hearts on the day of slaughter.⁶YOU​ have condemned, ​YOU​ have murdered the righteous one. Is he not opposing ​YOU?

⁷Exercise patience, therefore, brothers, until the presence of the Lord. Look! The farmer keeps waiting for the precious fruit of the earth, exercising patience over it until he gets the early rain and the late rain.⁸YOU​ too exercise patience; make ​YOUR​ hearts firm, because the presence of the Lord has drawn close.

⁹Do not heave sighs against one another, brothers, so that ​YOU​ do not get judged. Look! The Judge is standing before the doors.¹⁰Brothers, take as a pattern of the suffering of evil and the exercising of patience the prophets, who spoke in the name of Jehovah.¹¹Look! We pronounce happy those who have endured. YOU​ have heard of the endurance of Job and have seen the outcome Jehovah gave, that Jehovah is very tender in affection and merciful.

¹²Above all things, though, my brothers, stop swearing, yes, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath. But let ​YOUR​ ​Yes​ mean Yes, and ​YOUR​ ​No,​ No, so that ​YOU​ do not fall under judgment.

¹³Is there anyone suffering evil among ​YOU? Let him carry on prayer. Is there anyone in good spirits? Let him sing psalms.¹⁴Is there anyone sick among ​YOU? Let him call the older men of the congregation to [him], and let them pray over him, greasing [him] with oil in the name of Jehovah.¹⁵And the prayer of faith will make the indisposed one well, and Jehovah will raise him up. Also, if he has committed sins, it will be forgiven him.

¹⁶Therefore openly confess ​YOUR​ sins to one another and pray for one another, that ​YOU​ may get healed. A righteous man’s supplication, when it is at work, has much force.¹⁷E‧li′jah was a man with feelings like ours, and yet in prayer he prayed for it not to rain; and it did not rain upon the land for three years and six months.¹⁸And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain and the land put forth its fruit.

¹⁹My brothers, if anyone among ​YOU​ is misled from the truth and another turns him back,²⁰know that he who turns a sinner back from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.