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==Chapter 5==


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|<span id="5:1"></span>Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
|Wait just a moment, you rich men. Weep and howl for your miserable punishment that will come upon you.
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|<span id="5:2"></span>Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
|Your wealth is corrupt, and your expensive clothes are moth-eaten.
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|<span id="5:3"></span>Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
|Your [[gold]] and [[silver]] is rusted through, and their rust will be a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh as if it were fire. You have hoarded a treasure for the last days.
|If gold and silver can rust, then conditions are very corrupting indeed.
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|<span id="5:4"></span>Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
|Look! The wages of the workers who harvested your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cries out, and the cries of the reapers have been entered into the ears of the All-sufficient Lord.
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|<span id="5:5"></span>Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
|You have indulged yourselves on the earth, and been wanton. You have been nourishing your hearts, as one might in a day of slaughter.
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|<span id="5:6"></span>Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
|You have condemned and killed the just, and he does not resist you.
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|<span id="5:7"></span>Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
|So be patient, brothers, for the Coming of the Lord. Look: the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and waits patiently for a long time for it, until the early rain and the latter rain fall.
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|<span id="5:8"></span>Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
|So you be patient, too. Make your hearts steady, for the Coming of the Lord is drawing very close.
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|<span id="5:9"></span>Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
|Do not bear a grudge against one another, brothers, if you do not want to be condemned. Look: the Judge is standing before the door.
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|<span id="5:10"></span>Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
|Brothers, take the prophets, who have spoken in the Name of the Lord, as an example of how to suffer affliction, and of patience.
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|<span id="5:11"></span>Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
|Look: we count them happy who can last. You have heard about the patience of Job, and have seen the final plan of the Lord. The Lord is very full of pity, and of tender mercy.
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|<span id="5:12"></span>But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
|But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath. Let your "yes" be a "yes," and your "no" be a "no," if you do not want to fall into condemnation.
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|<span id="5:13"></span>Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
|Is any man among you afflicted? He should pray. Is any man merry? He should sing psalms.
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|<span id="5:14"></span>Is any sick among you? 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:
|Is any man sick among you? He should call for the church elders, and they should pray over him and rub him with oil in the name of the Lord.
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|<span id="5:15"></span>And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
|The prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed any sins, they will be forgiven him.
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|<span id="5:16"></span>Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
|Confess your faults to one another, and pray for one another, so that you will be healed. The effective fervent prayer of a righteous man will go a long way.
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|<span id="5:17"></span>Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
|[[Elijah]] was a man subject to the same passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that the rain might not fall. And it did not rain on the arth for three years and six months.
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|<span id="5:18"></span>And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
|Then he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced her fruit.
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|<span id="5:19"></span>Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
|Brothers, if any of you strays from the truth, and anyone converts him,
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|<span id="5:20"></span>Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
|let him know, that he who converts the sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death, and hide a multitude of sins.
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