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A.Rusted Gold Cries Out Against the Richvv. 1-6

1 Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you. 2 Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure in the last days. 4 Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts. 5 You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned and murdered the righteous, who did not resist you.

B.Patient as a Farmer Waiting for Rainvv. 7-12

7 Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains. 8 You, too, be patient and strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near. 9 Do not complain about one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged. Look, the Judge is standing at the door! 10 Brothers, as an example of patience in affliction, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. 11 See how blessed we consider those who have persevered. You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen the outcome from the Lord. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy. 12 Above all, my brothers, do not swear, not by heaven or earth or by any other oath. Simply let your “Yes” be yes, and your “No,” no, so that you will not fall under judgment.

C.The Prayer of Faith and the Wanderer Brought Backvv. 13-20

13 Is any one of you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praises. 14 Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick. The Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. 16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail. 17 Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. 18 Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth yielded its crops. 19 My brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring him back, 20 consider this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and cover over a multitude of sins.

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Chapter summary

'Go to now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you'.

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'Go to now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you'. Gold and silver rusted, and the wages kept back by fraud from the mowers crying out, the cries entering into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. To the wronged, patience: like the husbandman waiting for the early and latter rain, establish your hearts, 'for the coming of the Lord is at hand.' Take the prophets for suffering, and Job for endurance. Then the closing orders: let the suffering pray, the cheerful sing praise, and the sick call for the elders, 'and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord' (5:14). Elijah, a man of like passions with us, prayed, and it rained not.

Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.

Context

Epistle · James — James overview

  • A. 1–6 Rusted Gold Cries Out Against the Rich
  • B. 7–12 Patient as a Farmer Waiting for Rain
  • C. 13–20 The Prayer of Faith and the Wanderer Brought Back
Top cross-references8 chapters ▾
  • James 55 verses
    • James 5:8You, too, be patient and strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near.
    • James 5:9Do not complain about one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged. Look, the Judge is standing at the door!
    • James 5:13Is any one of you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praises.
    • James 5:16Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.
    • James 5:20consider this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and cover over a multitude of sins.
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  • Proverbs 112 verses
  • Leviticus 192 verses
    • Leviticus 19:13You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.
    • Leviticus 19:18Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
    • Read Leviticus 19 →
  • Matthew 52 verses
    • Matthew 5:11Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.
    • Matthew 5:33Again, you have heard that it was said to the ancients, ‘Do not break your oath, but fulfill your vows to the Lord.’
    • Read Matthew 5 →
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  • 1 Timothy 61 verse
    • 1 Timothy 6:9Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
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  • Romans 21 verse
    • Romans 2:5But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
    • Read Romans 2 →
  • Jeremiah 221 verse
    • Jeremiah 22:13“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,
    • Read Jeremiah 22 →

Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.