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The Book of James, Chapter 5, Verse 2

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Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
King James Version
Your 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.
American Standard Version
Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days.
New English Translation
he should know that the one who turns a sinner back from his wandering path will save that person’s soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
World English Bible
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
3
Behold, 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.
4
Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
5
Ye have condemned [and] killed the just; [and] he doth not resist you.
6
Be 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.
7
Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
8
Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
9
Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
10
Behold, 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.
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But 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.
12
Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.