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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Now listen, you rich people! Cry and moan over the miseries that are overtaking you. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Your riches are rotten, your clothes have been eaten by moths, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be used as evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up treasures in these last days. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Look! The wages that you kept back from the workers who harvested your fields are shouting out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of the Heavenly Armies. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5You have lived in luxury and pleasure on earth. You have fattened yourselves for the day of slaughter. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6You have condemned and murdered the one who is righteous, even though he did not rebel against you. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7So be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious crop from his land, being patient with it until it receives the fall and the spring rains. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8You, too, must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, because the coming of the Lord is near. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Do not complain about each other, brothers, or you will be condemned. Look! The Judge is standing at the door! |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10As an example of suffering and patience, brothers, take the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11We consider those who endured to be blessed. You have heard about Job's endurance and have seen the purpose of the Lord—that the Lord is compassionate and merciful. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Above all, brothers, do not swear oaths by heaven, by earth, or by any other object. Instead, let your "Yes" mean yes and your "No" mean no! Otherwise, you may fall under condemnation. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Is anyone among you suffering? He should keep on praying. Is anyone cheerful? He should keep reciting psalms. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Is anyone among you sick? He should call for the elders of the church, and they should pray for him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15And the prayer offered in faith will save the person who is sick. The Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed any sins, he will be forgiven. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Therefore, make it your habit to confess your sins to one another and to pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Elijah was a person just like us, and he prayed earnestly for it not to rain, and rain never came to the land for three years and six months. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Then he prayed again, and the skies poured out rain, and the ground produced its crops. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19My brothers, if one of you wanders away from the truth and somebody brings him back, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20you may be sure that whoever brings a sinner back from his wrong path will save his soul from death and cover a multitude of sins. |
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