{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/drb/james/5","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T10:28:48.798Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"James","bookSlug":"james","chapter":5,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":4,"nextChapter":null,"totalChapters":5,"totalVerses":20},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you. "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Your riches are corrupted: and your garments are motheaten. "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Your gold and silver is cankered: and the rust of them shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up to yourselves wrath against the last days. "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"You have feasted upon earth: and in riotousness you have nourished your hearts, in the day of slaughter. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"You have condemned and put to death the Just One, and he resisted you not. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Be you therefore also patient, and strengthen your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand. "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Grudge not, brethren, one against another, that you may not be judged. Behold the judge standeth before the door. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Take, my brethren, for an example of suffering evil, of labour and patience, the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Is any of you sad? Let him pray. Is he cheerful in mind? Let him sing. "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Confess therefore your sins one to another: and pray one for another, that you may be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man availeth much. "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Elias was a man passible like unto us: and with prayer he prayed that it might not rain upon the earth, and it rained not for three years and six months. "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And he prayed again: and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"My brethren, if any of you err from the truth, and one convert him: "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"He must know that he who causeth a sinner to be converted from the error of his way, shall save his soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins."}],"citation":{"inline":"James 5 (DRB)","markdown":"[James 5](https://primebible.com/drb/james/5)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/james/5 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}