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| 5:1 | Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon `you'; |
| 5:2 | your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten; |
| 5:3 | your gold and silver have rotted, and the rust of them for a testimony shall be to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye made treasure in the last days! |
| 5:4 | lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you -- doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered; |
| 5:5 | ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter; |
| 5:6 | ye did condemn -- ye did murder the righteous one, he doth not resist you. |
| 5:7 | Be patient, then, brethren, till the presence of the Lord; lo, the husbandman doth expect the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, till he may receive rain -- early and latter; |
| 5:8 | be patient, ye also; establish your hearts, because the presence of the Lord hath drawn nigh; |
| 5:9 | murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye may not be condemned; lo, the Judge before the door hath stood. |
| 5:10 | An example take ye of the suffering of evil, my brethren, and of the patience, the prophets who did speak in the name of the Lord; |
| 5:11 | lo, we call happy those who are enduring; the endurance of Job ye heard of, and the end of the Lord ye have seen, that very compassionate is the Lord, and pitying. |
| 5:12 | And before all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, and let your Yes be Yes, and the No, No; that under judgment ye may not fall. |
| 5:13 | Doth any one suffer evil among you? let him pray; is any of good cheer? let him sing psalms; |
| 5:14 | is any infirm among you? let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil, in the name of the Lord, |
| 5:15 | and the prayer of the faith shall save the distressed one, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if sins he may have committed, they shall be forgiven to him. |
| 5:16 | Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man; |
| 5:17 | Elijah was a man like affected as we, and with prayer he did pray -- not to rain, and it did not rain upon the land three years and six months; |
| 5:18 | and again he did pray, and the heaven did give rain, and the land did bring forth her fruit. |
| 5:19 | Brethren, if any among you may go astray from the truth, and any one may turn him back, |
| 5:20 | let him know that he who did turn back a sinner from the straying of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins. |
| 5:1 | Goo to now ye ryche men. Wepe and howle on youre wretchednes that shall come apon you. |
| 5:2 | Youre ryches is corrupte youre garmentes are motheaten. |
| 5:3 | Youre golde and youre silver are cankred and the rust of them shalbe a witnes vnto you and shall eate youre flesshe as it were fyre. Ye have heaped treasure togedder in youre last dayes: |
| 5:4 | Beholde the hyre of ye labourers which have reped doune youre feldes (which hyer is of you kept backe by fraude) cryeth: and ye cryes of them which have reped are entred into the eares of the lorde Sabaoth. |
| 5:5 | Ye have lived in pleasure on the erth and in wantannes. Ye have norysshed youre hertes as in a daye of slaughter. |
| 5:6 | Ye have condempned and have killed the iust and he hath not resisted you. |
| 5:7 | Be pacient therfore brethren vnto the commynge of the lorde. Beholde the husbande man wayteth for the precious frute of the erth and hath longe pacience ther vppon vntill he receave (the erly and the latter rayne.) |
| 5:8 | Be ye also pacient therfore and settle youre hertes for ye commynge of the lorde draweth nye. |
| 5:9 | Grodge not one agaynst another brethre lest ye be dapned. Beholde the iudge stondeth before the dore. |
| 5:10 | Take (my brethren) the prophettes for an ensample of sufferynge adversitie and of longe pacience which spake in the name of the lorde. |
| 5:11 | Beholde we counte them happy which endure. Ye have hearde of the pacience of Iob and have knowen what ende the lorde made. For the lorde is very pitifull and mercifull. |
| 5:12 | But above all thynges my brethre sweare not nether by heven nether by erth nether by eny other othe. Let youre ye be ye and youre maye naye: lest ye faule into ypocrecy. |
| 5:13 | Yf eny of you be evyll vexed let him praye. Yf eny of you be mery let him singe Psalmes. |
| 5:14 | Yf eny be defeated amonge you let him call for the elders of the congregacion and let the praye over him and anoynte him with oyle in the name of the lorde: |
| 5:15 | and the prayer of fayth shall save the sicke and the lorde shall rayse him vp: and yf he have committed synnes they shalbe forgeuen him. |
| 5:16 | knowledge youre fautes one to another: and praye one for another that ye maye be healed. The prayer of a ryghteous ma avayleth moche yf it be fervet. |
| 5:17 | Helias was a man mortall even as we are and he prayed in his prayer that it myght not rayne: and it rayned not on the erth by the space of thre yeares and sixe monethes. |
| 5:18 | And he prayed agayne and the heve gave rayne and the erth brought forth her frute. |
| 5:19 | Brethren yf eny of you erre from the trueth and an other convert him |
| 5:20 | let the same knowe that he which converted the synner fro goynge a straye out of his waye shall save a soule fro deeth and shall hyde ye multitude of synnes. |
| 5:1 | Goo to now ye riche men. Wepe, and howle on yor wretchednes that shal come vpon you. |
| 5:2 | Youre riches is corrupte, youre garmetes are motheaten. |
| 5:3 | Youre golde & yor siluer are cancred, & the rust of them shalbe a witnes vnto you, & shal eate youre flesshe, as it were fyre. Ye haue heaped treasure togedder in yor last dayes: |
| 5:4 | Beholde, the hyre of the labourers which haue reped downe youre feldes (which hyer is of you kept backe by fraude) cryeth: and the cryes of the which haue reped, are entred in to the eares of the LORDE Sabaoth. |
| 5:5 | Ye haue liued in pleasure on the earth and in wantannes. Ye haue norysshed youre hertes, as in a daye of slaughter. |
| 5:6 | Ye haue codempned and haue killed the iust, and he hath not resisted you. |
| 5:7 | Be pacient therfore brethren, vnto the comynge of the LORDE. Beholde, the hussbade man wayteth for the precious frute of ye earth, and hath longe pacience there vpon, vntill he receaue the erly and the latter rayne. |
| 5:8 | Be ye also pacient therfore, and settle youre hertes, for the commynge of the LORDE draweth nye. |
| 5:9 | Grodge not one agaynst another brethren, lest ye be damned. Beholde, the iudge stondeth before the dore. |
| 5:10 | Take (my brethren) the prophetes for an ensample of sufferynge aduersitie, and of longe pacience, which spake in the name of the LORDE. |
| 5:11 | Beholde we counte them happy which endure. Ye haue hearde of ye paciece of Iob, and haue knowen what ende the LORDE made. For the LORDE is very pitifull and mercifull. |
| 5:12 | But aboue all thinges my brethre, sweare not, nether by heaue, nether by earth, nether by eny other othe. Let youre ye be ye, and yor naye naye: lest ye faule in to ypocricy. |
| 5:13 | Yf eny of you be euell vexed, let hi praye. Yf eny of you be mery, let him singe Psalmes. |
| 5:14 | Yf eny be deseased amonge you, let him call for the elders of the congregacion, & let the praye ouer him, and anoynte him with oyle in the name of the LORDE: |
| 5:15 | and ye prayer of faith shal saue the sicke, and the LORDE shal rayse him vp: and yf he haue comitted synnes, they shalbe forgeuen him. |
| 5:16 | Knowlege youre fautes one to another: and praye one for another, that ye maye be healed. The prayer of a righteous man auayleth moche, yf it be feruet. |
| 5:17 | Helias was a ma mortall euen as we are, and he prayed in his prayer, that it might not rayne: & it rayned not on the earth by the space of thre yeares and sixe monethes. |
| 5:18 | And he prayed agayne, and ye heaue gaue rayne, & ye earth brought forth her frute. |
| 5:19 | Brethren, yf eny of you erre fro the trueth and another conuert him, |
| 5:20 | let ye same knowe that he which conuerted the synner from goynge astraye out off his waye, shal saue a soule fro death, and shal hyde the multitude of synnes. |
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