5: 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
5: 3 Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony 57against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days.
57Or, unto you,
5: 4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you 58kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of 59Hosts.
58B*ℵ read withheld, or, kept in arrear,
59Gk. Sabaoth. Hb. word meaning hosts.
5: 5 Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.
5: 6 Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous one; he doth not resist you.
5: 7 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the presence of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until 60it receive 61the early and latter rain.
60Or, he
61So p74B 1739 1241 048 copsa vg arm. Aψ 1852 1243 2344 33 322 and the majority of lesser Gk. mss. read the early and latter rain. ℵ* with only four lesser mss., (copbo) read the early and latter fruit.
5: 8 Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the presence of the Lord has drawn near.
5: 9 Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that ye be not judged: behold, the judge standeth before the doors.
5: 10 Take, brethren, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spake in the name of the Lord.
5: 11 Behold, we call them blessed that endured: ye have heard of the 62patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, how that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful.
62Or, endurance or, stedfastness
5: 12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but 63let your Yes mean yes, and your No mean no; that ye fall not under judgment.
63Or, let yours be the yes, yes, and the no, no; Compare Mt 5:37.
5: 13 Is any among you suffering? let him pray. Is any cheerful? let him sing praise.
5: 14 Is any among you weak? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil in the name 64of the Lord:
64B alone omits of the Lord
5: 15 and the prayer of faith shall save him that is sick, and the Lord shall 65raise him up; and if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him.
65Or, awaken him;
5: 16 Confess therefore 66your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.
66So BAℵψ 1739 1852 1241 1243 2344 33 048. 322 and 452 still lesser Gk. mss. read your faults copsa vg read your faults
5: 17 Elijah was a man of 67like passions with us, and he prayed 68fervently that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months.
67Or possibly, like nature with us,
68Gk. with prayer
5: 18 And he prayed again; and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
5: 19 My brethren, if any among you err from the truth, and one convert him;
5: 20 69let him know, that he who converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save 70his soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.
69So Aℵ 1739 1852 1241 1243 2344 322 and the majority of lesser Gk. mss., vg arm. B and a few others read know ye that p74 copsa omit let him know, that ψ virtually alone omits let him know,
70So Aℵ 1739 2344 33 048vid copbo vg arm. p74B with few others read a soul from his death, or, a soul from death itself, ψ 1852 1241 1243 and the majority of lesser Gk. mss., copsa read a soul from death,
