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¹ O ye rich ones, wail and weep, on account of the miseries that are coming upon you.² For your wealth is spoiled and putrid; and your garments are moth-eaten:³ and your gold and your silver have contracted rust; and the rust of them will be testimony against you; and it will eat your flesh. Ye have heaped up a fire to you against the latter days.⁴ Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped your ground, which ye have wrongfully retained, crieth out; and the clamor of the reapers hath entered the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.⁵ For ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and revelled, and feasted your bodies as in a day of slaughter.⁶ Ye have condemned and slain the just, and none resisted you.⁷ But, my brethren, be ye patient until the advent of the Lord; like the husbandman, who waiteth for the precious fruits of his ground, and is patient as to them, until he receive the early and the latter rain.⁸ So also be ye patient, and fortify your hearts; for the advent of our Lord draweth nigh⁹ Be not querulous one against another, my brethren, lest ye be judged: for lo, the judgment, standeth before the door.¹⁰ For patience in your afflictions, my brethren, take to you the example of the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord.¹¹ For lo, we ascribe blessedness to them who have borne suffering. Ye have heard of the patience of Job; and ye have seen the result which the Lord wrought for him: for the Lord is merciful and compassionate.

¹² But above all things, my brethren, swear ye not; neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your language be yes, yes, and no, no, lest ye become obnoxious to judgment.¹³ And if any of you shall be in affliction, let him pray; or if he be joyous, let him sing psalms.¹⁴ And if one is sick, let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray for him, and anoint him with oil in the name of our Lord:¹⁵ and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and our Lord will raise him up; and if sins have been committed by him, they will be forgiven him.¹⁶ And confess ye your faults one to another, and pray ye one for another, that ye may be healed; for great is the efficacy of the prayer which a righteous man prayeth.¹⁷ Elijah also was a man of sensations like us, and he prayed that rain might not descend upon the earth; and it descended not, for three years and six months.¹⁸ And again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth gave forth its fruits.¹⁹ My brethren, if one of you err from the way of truth, and any one convert him from his error;²⁰ let him know, that he who turneth the sinner from the error of his way, will resuscitate his soul from death, and will cover the multitude of his sins.