³Your gold and silver is cankered: and the rust of them shall be for a testimony against you and shall eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up to yourselves wrath against the last days.

⁴Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

⁵You have feasted upon earth: and in riotousness you have nourished your hearts, in the day of slaughter.

⁶You have condemned and put to death the Just One: and he resisted you not.

⁷Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth: patiently bearing till he receive the early and latter rain.

⁸Be you therefore also patient and strengthen your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

⁹Grudge not, brethren, one against another, that you may not be judged. Behold the judge standeth before the door.

¹⁰Take, my brethren, for example of suffering evil, of labour and patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

¹¹Behold, we account them blessed who have endured. You have heard of the patience of Job and you have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is merciful and compassionate.

¹²But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath. But let your speech be: Yea, Yea: No, No: that you fall not under judgment.

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James 5:8: You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

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