1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. 2 Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your 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. 4 Behold, 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. 5 You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.

7 Be 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. 8 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

9 Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door. 10 Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. 11 Behold, 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.

12 But 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.

13 Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises. 14 Is 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; 15 and 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. 16 Confess 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. 17 Elijah 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. 18 He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.

19 Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back, 20 let 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.

1 你们富有的人哪， 应当为那将要临到你们的灾祸哭泣哀号。

2 你们的财物朽坏了， 你们的衣服给蛀了，

3 你们的金银生锈， 这锈要成为控告你们的铁证， 又要像火一样吞吃你们的肉。你们竟然在这末世积聚财宝。

4 看哪， 工人为你们收割庄稼， 你们竟然克扣他们的工资； 那工资必为他们呼冤； 收割者的呼声， 已经达到万军之主的耳中了。

5 你们在世上穷奢极侈， 养肥了自己， 竟不知屠宰的日子到了。

6 你们把义人定罪杀害， 但他并没有反抗。

7 所以， 弟兄们， 你们应当忍耐， 直到主来。看哪， 农夫等待着地里宝贵的出产， 为它忍耐， 直到获得秋霖春雨。

8 你们也应当忍耐， 坚定自己的心； 因为主再来的日子近了。

9 弟兄们， 不要彼此抱怨， 免得你们受审判。看哪， 审判的主已经站在门前了。

10 弟兄们， 你们应当效法奉主的名说话的先知， 以他们为受苦忍耐的榜样。

11 看哪， 那些忍耐的人， 我们称他们是有福的； 你们听过约伯的忍耐， 也看见了主赐给他的结局， 知道主是满有怜悯和仁慈的。

12 我的弟兄们， 最要紧的是不可起誓： 不可指着天起誓， 也不可指着地起誓， 任何的誓都当禁绝。你们的话， 是就说是， 不是就说不是； 免得你们落在审判之下。

13 你们中间有人受苦吗？他就应该祷告。有人心情愉快吗？他就应该歌颂。

14 你们中间有人患病吗？他就应该请教会的长老来， 让他们奉主的名为他抹油祈祷。

15 出于信心的祈祷， 可以使病人康复， 主必叫他起来； 他若犯了罪， 也必蒙赦免。

16 所以你们应当彼此认罪， 互相代求， 这样你们就可以痊愈。义人祈祷所发出的力量， 是大有功效的。

17 以利亚是与我们性情相同的人； 他恳切祈求不要下雨， 地上就三年零六个月没有雨；

18 他又祈祷， 天就下雨， 地就生出土产来。

19 我的弟兄们， 你们中间若有人被骗离开了真道， 如果有人使他回头，

20 你们应该知道， 那使罪人从歧途上转回的， 就会拯救他的灵魂脱离死亡， 也会遮盖许多罪恶。