1Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. 2Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. 3Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. 4Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. 5Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. 6Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
7Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. 8Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. 9Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door. 10Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience. 11Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. 12But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation. 13Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. 14Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: 15And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. 16Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. 17Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. 18And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. 19Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; 20Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
警告为富不仁者
1你们这些富有的人啊！为那将要临到你们身上的灾难痛哭哀号吧！ 2你们的财物朽坏了，衣服也被虫蛀了。 3你们的金银生了锈，那锈必要指控你们，像火一样吞噬你们的身体。在末世的日子里，你们只知道积攒财宝。 4工人替你们收割庄稼，你们却克扣他们的工钱。那工钱发出不平的呼喊，工人的冤声已经传到万军之主的耳中了。 5你们在世上奢侈享乐，在被宰杀的日子里，把自己养得肥肥胖胖。 6你们冤枉好人、残害无辜，他们也没有反抗。
要忍耐到底
7弟兄姊妹，你们要一直忍耐到主来。你们看农夫怎样耐心等候地里宝贵的出产，等候秋雨和春雨的降临。 8同样，你们也要忍耐，心志坚定，因为主快来了。 9弟兄姊妹，不要互相埋怨，免得受审判。你们看，审判的主已经站在门外了。 10弟兄姊妹，你们要效法从前奉主的名说话的先知，以他们的受苦和忍耐为榜样。 11我们认为那些忍耐到底的人是有福的。你们都知道约伯的忍耐，也知道主最终怎样待他，因为主充满怜悯和慈悲。
12我的弟兄姊妹，最重要的是不可起誓，不可指着天起誓，也不可指着地起誓，不可指着任何东西起誓。你们说话，是就说是，不是就说不是，免得你们受审判。
祷告的力量
13你们中间正在受苦的人应该祷告，喜乐的人应该唱歌赞美， 14生病的人应该请教会的长老来，奉主的名用油抹他的身体并为他祷告。 15出于信心的祷告必能使病人痊愈，主必使他康复。倘若他犯了罪，也必得到赦免。 16所以你们要彼此认罪，互相代祷，好得到医治。义人的祷告有极大的力量和功效。 17以利亚先知和我们一样同是血肉之躯，他恳切地祈求不要下雨，结果三年半没有下雨。 18后来他再祷告求雨，天就降雨，地也长出了庄稼。
19我的弟兄姊妹，如果有人领一个偏离真道的人归回正路， 20他该知道：使一个迷途中的罪人归回正路就是救一个灵魂脱离死亡，并且会遮盖许多罪。
