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1 Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you.
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Come now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you.
2 Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes.
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Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
3 Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days.
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Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days.
4 Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.
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Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
5 You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.
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Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.
6 You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you.
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Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous [one]; he doth not resist you.
7 Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains.
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Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter rain.
8 You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord’s coming is near.
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Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
9 Don’t grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, or you will be judged. The Judge is standing at the door!
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Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that ye be not judged: behold, the judge standeth before the doors.
10 Brothers and sisters, as an example of patience in the face of suffering, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
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Take, brethren, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spake in the name of the Lord.
11 As you know, we count as blessed those who have persevered. You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally brought about. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
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Behold, we call them blessed that endured: ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, how that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful.
12 Above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear—not by heaven or by earth or by anything else. All you need to say is a simple “Yes” or “No.” Otherwise you will be condemned.
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But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay; that ye fall not under judgment.
13 Is anyone among you in trouble? Let them pray. Is anyone happy? Let them sing songs of praise.
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Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praise.
14 Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord.
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Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
15 And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven.
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and the prayer of faith shall save him that is sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him.
16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
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Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.
17 Elijah was a human being, even as we are. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.
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Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months.
18 Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops.
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And he prayed again; and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
19 My brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring that person back,
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My brethren, if any among you err from the truth, and one convert him;
20 remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of their way will save them from death and cover over a multitude of sins.
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let him know, that he who converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.
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