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St James 5:4-15 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

4. Behold the hire of the labourers, who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

5. You have feasted upon earth: and in riotousness you have nourished your hearts, in the day of slaughter.

6. You have condemned and put to death the Just One, and he resisted you not.

7. Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth: patiently bearing till he receive the early and latter rain.

8. Be you therefore also patient, and strengthen your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

9. Grudge not, brethren, one against another, that you may not be judged. Behold the judge standeth before the door.

10. Take, my brethren, for an example of suffering evil, of labour and patience, the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord.

11. Behold, we account them blessed who have endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and you have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is merciful and compassionate.

12. But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath. But let your speech be, yea, yea: no, no: that you fall not under judgment.

13. Is any of you sad? Let him pray. Is he cheerful in mind? Let him sing.

14. Is any man sick among you? Let him bring in the priests of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.

15. And the prayer of faith shall save the sick man: and the Lord shall raise him up: and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven him.

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