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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>James 5 Anderson's New Testament</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/james/5.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/james/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Anderson</a> > James 5</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../james/4.htm" title="James 4">◄</a> James 5 <a href="../1_peter/1.htm" title="1 Peter 1">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Anderson's New Testament</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/james/5-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">A Warning to the Rich<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../1_timothy/6.htm#17">1 Timothy 6:17–19</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Come, now, you rich men, weep and lament for your miseries that are coming upon you. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Your wealth is corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten: <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>your gold and your silver are covered with rust; and their rust will be a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You have heaped up treasures in the last days. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped your fields, which has been unjustly withheld by you, cries out: and the cries of those who have reaped, have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; you have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>You have condemned and killed the Just One: and he does not set himself against you.<CM><p> <A name="8"></a><p class="hdg">Patience in Suffering<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Be patient, therefore, brethren, till the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer looks for the precious fruit of the earth, and waits patiently for it, till he receives the early and the latter rain. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Be you also patient, establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draws near.<CM> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Indulge not in complaints against one another, brethren, lest you be condemned: behold, the judge stands before the door. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Take, my brethren, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord, as an example of suffering evil, and of patience. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Behold, we count those happy who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the final dealing of the Lord, that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.<CM><p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But above all things, my brethren, swear not, either by heaven, or by the earth, or with any other oath: but let your yes, be yes, and your no, be no, lest you fall into condemnation.<CM><p> <A name="14"></a><p class="hdg">The Prayer of Faith<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Is any one among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any one cheerful? let him sing praise. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Is any one 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. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And the prayer of faith shall save the sick; and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.<CM> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Confess your faults one to another, and pray for one another, that you may be restored to health: the fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Elijah was a man with passions like our own; and he earnestly prayed that it might not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And he prayed again; and the heavens gave rain, and the earth brought forth its fruit.<CM><p> <A name="20"></a><p class="hdg">Restoring a Sinner<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Brethren, if any among you should err from the truth, and one should turn him back, <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>let him know that he who turns back a sinner from the error of his way, will save a soul from death, and cover a multitude of sins.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Anderson's New Testament (1865)<br><br>Digital Text Courtesy <a href="https://theword.net">TheWord.net Bible Software</a>.<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../james/4.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="James 4"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="James 4" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../1_peter/1.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Peter 1"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Peter 1" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>