James 5:1–12

¹Go to now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you. ²Your wealth is become rotten, and your garments moth-eaten. ³Your gold and silver is eaten away, and their canker shall be for a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have heaped up treasure in the last days. ⁴Behold, the wages of your labourers, who have harvested your fields, wrongfully kept back by you, cry, and the cries of those that have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. ⁵Ye have lived luxuriously on the earth and indulged yourselves; ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter; ⁶ye have condemned, ye have killed the just; he does not resist you. ⁷Have patience, therefore, brethren, till the coming of the Lord. Behold, the labourer awaits the precious fruit of the earth, having patience for it until it receive the early and the latter rain. ⁸Ye also have patience: stablish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is drawn nigh. ⁹Complain not one against another, brethren, that ye be not judged. Behold, the judge stands before the door. ¹⁰Take as an example, brethren, of suffering and having patience, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord. ¹¹Behold, we call them blessed who have endured. Ye have heard of the endurance of Job, and seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is full of tender compassion and pitiful.

¹²But before all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay, that ye do not fall under judgment.