James 5:1-6
VARIOUS ADMONITIONS IN VIEW OF THE NEARNESS OF THE JUDGMENT. Exhortation to the rich:... [ Continue Reading ]
VARIOUS ADMONITIONS IN VIEW OF THE NEARNESS OF THE JUDGMENT. Exhortation to the rich:... [ Continue Reading ]
GO TO NOW, YE RICH MEN, WEEP AND HOWL FOR YOUR MISERIES THAT SHALL COME UPON YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
YOUR RICHES ARE CORRUPTED, AND YOUR GARMENTS ARE MOTH-EATEN.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD, THE HIRE OF THE LABORERS 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.... [ Continue Reading ]
YE HAVE LIVED IN PLEASURE ON THE EARTH AND BEEN WANTON; YE HAVE NOURISHED YOUR HEARTS AS IN A DAY OF SLAUGHTER.... [ Continue Reading ]
YE HAVE CONDEMNED AND KILLED THE JUST; AND HE DOTH NOT RESIST YOU. To the remarks which the author has written concerning the rich in the first part of his letter he now adds an exhortation in which he calls upon them directly to consider their ways: Come now, you rich men, weep with lamentation ov... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
Admonition to patience:... [ Continue Reading ]
BE YE ALSO PATIENT, STABLISH YOUR HEARTS; FOR THE COMING OF THE LORD DRAWETH NIGH.... [ Continue Reading ]
GRUDGE NOT ONE AGAINST ANOTHER, BRETHREN, LEST YE BE CONDEMNED; BEHOLD, THE JUDGE STANDETH BEFORE THE DOOR.... [ Continue Reading ]
TAKE, MY BRETHREN, THE PROPHETS WHO HAVE SPOKEN IN THE NAME OF THE LORD FOR AN EXAMPLE OF SUFFERING AFFLICTION AND OF PATIENCE.... [ Continue Reading ]
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. Probably the thought of the uncomplaining patience of the righteous under the ill treatment of the wealthy caused the apostle to add... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
The improper and the proper use of God's name:... [ Continue Reading ]
IS ANY AMONG YOU AFFLICTED? LET HIM PRAY, IS ANY MERRY? LET HIM SING PSALMS.... [ Continue Reading ]
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;... [ Continue Reading ]
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 apostle introduces a new paragraph, couched, in part, in the words of the Lord's own instruction: But above all, my brethren, do not swear, neither by heaven,... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
Admonition to forgiveness and loving intercession:... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE PRAYED AGAIN, AND THE HEAVEN GAVE RAIN, AND THE EARTH BROUGHT FORTH HER FRUIT.... [ Continue Reading ]
BRETHREN, IF ANY ONE OF YOU DO ERR FROM THE TRUTH AND ONE CONVERT HIM,... [ Continue Reading ]
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. The forgiveness of sins mentioned at the close of the last paragraph now causes the apostle to add a general admonition: Confess, then, your sins toward one a... [ Continue Reading ]