James 5

1Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.Cross-references: Deut 8:12 · Deut 32:15 · Neh 9:25 · Job 20:15 · Ps 17:14 · Ps 49:6 · +28 more

2Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.Cross-references: Job 13:28 · Ps 39:11 · Isa 50:9 · Isa 51:8 · Jer 17:11 · Hos 5:12 · +4 more

3Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.Cross-references: Gen 31:48 · Gen 31:52 · Gen 49:1 · Deut 32:33 · Josh 24:27 · Job 14:16 · +13 more

4Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.Cross-references: Gen 4:10 · Ex 2:23 · Ex 3:9 · Ex 22:22 · Ex 22:27 · Lev 19:13 · +13 more

5You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.Cross-references: 1Sam 25:6 · 1Sam 25:36 · Job 21:11 · Ps 17:14 · Ps 73:7 · Prov 7:14 · +21 more

6You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.Cross-references: Isa 53:7 · Matt 5:39 · Matt 21:38 · Matt 23:34 · Matt 26:53 · Matt 27:20 · +16 more

7Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.Cross-references: Deut 11:14 · Jer 5:24 · Hos 6:3 · Joel 2:23 · Zech 10:1 · Matt 24:27 · +19 more

8You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.Cross-references: Gen 49:18 · Ps 27:14 · Ps 37:7 · Ps 40:1 · Ps 130:5 · Lam 3:25 · +13 more

9Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.Cross-references: Gen 4:7 · Lev 19:18 · Ps 59:15 · Matt 6:14 · Matt 7:1 · Matt 24:33 · +11 more

10Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.Cross-references: 2Chr 36:16 · Isa 39:8 · Jer 2:30 · Jer 23:22 · Jer 26:16 · Matt 5:11 · +9 more

11Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.Cross-references: Ex 34:6 · Num 14:18 · 1Chr 21:13 · 2Chr 30:9 · Neh 9:17 · Neh 9:31 · +43 more

12But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear—not by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”, so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.Cross-references: Matt 5:33 · Matt 23:16 · 1Cor 11:34 · 2Cor 1:17 · James 3:1 · 1Pet 4:8 · +1 more

13Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.Cross-references: Judg 16:23 · 1Chr 16:9 · 2Chr 33:12 · Job 33:26 · Ps 18:6 · Ps 50:15 · +25 more

14Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;Cross-references: 1Ki 17:21 · 2Ki 4:33 · 2Ki 5:11 · Mark 6:13 · Mark 16:18 · Acts 9:40 · +4 more

15and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.Cross-references: Isa 33:24 · Matt 9:2 · Matt 17:20 · Matt 21:21 · Mark 2:5 · Mark 11:22 · +8 more

16Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.Cross-references: Gen 18:23 · Gen 19:29 · Gen 20:7 · Gen 20:17 · Gen 32:28 · Gen 41:9 · +57 more

17Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.Cross-references: 1Ki 17:1 · 1Ki 18:1 · Luke 4:25 · Acts 10:26 · Acts 14:15 · Rom 11:2 · +1 more

18He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.Cross-references: 1Ki 18:18 · 1Ki 18:42 · Jer 14:22 · Acts 14:17

19Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,Cross-references: Ps 119:21 · Ps 119:118 · Prov 19:27 · Isa 3:12 · Ezek 34:4 · Ezek 34:16 · +12 more

20let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.Cross-references: Ps 32:1 · Prov 10:2 · Prov 10:12 · Prov 11:4 · Prov 11:30 · John 5:24 · +8 more