James 5:1-9 ▼

1 COME now, ye rich men, let your tears run down, howling over your miseries which are coming upon you.

2 Your wealth is corrupted, and your robes are moth-eaten.

3 Your gold and silver is cankered with rust; and the rust upon them is a testimony against you, and shall eat into your flesh as fire. Ye have heaped up treasures in the last days.

4 Behold, the wages of the workmen who have mowed down your fields, which is kept back by you from them, crieth out: and the loud moans of the reapers are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

5 Ye have gormandized upon the earth, and lived in every luxury: ye have pampered your hearts, as in a day of feasting on the victim slain.

6 Ye have falsely condemned, ye have murdered the just man; nor doth he resist you.

7 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, in patient expectation for it, till it receives the former and the latter rain.

8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest be ye condemned: lo! the judge standeth at the gates.