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         <div class="label">21</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Naboth&#8217;s Vineyard</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1KI.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Some time later there was an incident involving a vineyard belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite. The vineyard was in Jezreel, close to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1KI.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Ahab said to Naboth, &#8220;Let me have your vineyard to use for a vegetable garden, since it is close to my palace. In exchange I will give you a better vineyard or, if you prefer, I will pay you whatever it is worth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1KI.21.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1KI.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But Naboth replied, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my ancestors.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1KI.21.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1KI.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So Ahab went home, sullen and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had said, &#8220;I will not give you the inheritance of my ancestors.&#8221; He lay on his bed sulking and refused to eat.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1KI.21.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1KI.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">His wife Jezebel came in and asked him, &#8220;Why are you so sullen? Why won&#8217;t you eat?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1KI.21.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1KI.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He answered her, &#8220;Because I said to Naboth the Jezreelite, &#8216;Sell me your vineyard; or if you prefer, I will give you another vineyard in its place.&#8217; But he said, &#8216;I will not give you my vineyard.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1KI.21.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1KI.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Jezebel his wife said, &#8220;Is this how you act as king over Israel? Get up and eat! Cheer up. I&#8217;ll get you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1KI.21.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1KI.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">So she wrote letters in Ahab&#8217;s name, placed his seal on them, and sent them to the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth&#8217;s city with him. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1KI.21.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">In those letters she wrote:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1KI.21.9"><span class="content">&#8220;Proclaim a day of fasting and seat Naboth in a prominent place among the people. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1KI.21.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But seat two scoundrels opposite him and have them bring charges that he has cursed both God and the king. Then take him out and stone him to death.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1KI.21.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1KI.21.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth&#8217;s city did as Jezebel directed in the letters she had written to them. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1KI.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They proclaimed a fast and seated Naboth in a prominent place among the people. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1KI.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then two scoundrels came and sat opposite him and brought charges against Naboth before the people, saying, &#8220;Naboth has cursed both God and the king.&#8221; So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1KI.21.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then they sent word to Jezebel: &#8220;Naboth has been stoned to death.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1KI.21.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1KI.21.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">As soon as Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned to death, she said to Ahab, &#8220;Get up and take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite that he refused to sell you. He is no longer alive, but dead.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1KI.21.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, he got up and went down to take possession of Naboth&#8217;s vineyard.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1KI.21.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1KI.21.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to Elijah the Tishbite: </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1KI.21.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who rules in Samaria. He is now in Naboth&#8217;s vineyard, where he has gone to take possession of it. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1KI.21.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Say to him, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Have you not murdered a man and seized his property?&#8217; Then say to him, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: In the place where dogs licked up Naboth&#8217;s blood, dogs will lick up your blood&#8212;yes, yours!&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1KI.21.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1KI.21.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Ahab said to Elijah, &#8220;So you have found me, my enemy!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1KI.21.20"><span class="content">&#8220;I have found you,&#8221; he answered, &#8220;because you have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1KI.21.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He says, &#8216;I am going to bring disaster on you. I will wipe out your descendants and cut off from Ahab every last male in Israel&#8212;slave or free.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Israel&#8212;every ruler or leader</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1KI.21.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat and that of Baasha son of Ahijah, because you have aroused my anger and have caused Israel to sin.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1KI.21.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1KI.21.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;And also concerning Jezebel the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8216;Dogs will devour Jezebel by the wall of</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:23 </span><span class="ft">Most Hebrew manuscripts; a few Hebrew manuscripts, Vulgate and Syriac (see also 2 Kings 9:26) </span><span class="fqa">the plot of ground at</span></span></span><span class="content"> Jezreel.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1KI.21.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1KI.21.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Dogs will eat those belonging to Ahab who die in the city, and the birds will feed on those who die in the country.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1KI.21.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1KI.21.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">(There was never anyone like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, urged on by Jezebel his wife. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1KI.21.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">He behaved in the vilest manner by going after idols, like the Amorites the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> drove out before Israel.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1KI.21.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1KI.21.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and fasted. He lay in sackcloth and went around meekly.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1KI.21.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1KI.21.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to Elijah the Tishbite: </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1KI.21.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;Have you noticed how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself, I will not bring this disaster in his day, but I will bring it on his house in the days of his son.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Warning Against Adultery</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My son, pay attention to my wisdom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.5.1"><span class="content">turn your ear to my words of insight,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.5.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">that you may maintain discretion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.5.2"><span class="content">and your lips may preserve knowledge.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.5.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.5.3"><span class="content">and her speech is smoother than oil;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.5.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">but in the end she is bitter as gall,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.5.4"><span class="content">sharp as a double-edged sword.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.5.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Her feet go down to death;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.5.5"><span class="content">her steps lead straight to the grave.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.5.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">She gives no thought to the way of life;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.5.6"><span class="content">her paths wander aimlessly, but she does not know it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Now then, my sons, listen to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.5.7"><span class="content">do not turn aside from what I say.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.5.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Keep to a path far from her,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.5.8"><span class="content">do not go near the door of her house,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.5.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">lest you lose your honor to others</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.5.9"><span class="content">and your dignity</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">years</span></span></span><span class="content"> to one who is cruel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.5.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">lest strangers feast on your wealth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.5.10"><span class="content">and your toil enrich the house of another.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.5.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">At the end of your life you will groan,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.5.11"><span class="content">when your flesh and body are spent.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.5.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">You will say, &#8220;How I hated discipline!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.5.12"><span class="content">How my heart spurned correction!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.5.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I would not obey my teachers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.5.13"><span class="content">or turn my ear to my instructors.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.5.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And I was soon in serious trouble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.5.14"><span class="content">in the assembly of God&#8217;s people.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.5.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Drink water from your own cistern,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.5.15"><span class="content">running water from your own well.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.5.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Should your springs overflow in the streets,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.5.16"><span class="content">your streams of water in the public squares?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.5.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Let them be yours alone,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.5.17"><span class="content">never to be shared with strangers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.5.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">May your fountain be blessed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.5.18"><span class="content">and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.5.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">A loving doe, a graceful deer&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.5.19"><span class="content">may her breasts satisfy you always,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.5.19"><span class="content">may you ever be intoxicated with her love.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.5.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man&#8217;s wife?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.5.20"><span class="content">Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.5.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For your ways are in full view of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.5.21"><span class="content">and he examines all your paths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.5.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.5.22"><span class="content">the cords of their sins hold them fast.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.5.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.5.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">For lack of discipline they will die,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.5.23"><span class="content">led astray by their own great folly.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Submit Yourselves to God</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JAS.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don&#8217;t they come from your desires that battle within you? </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JAS.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JAS.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JAS.4.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JAS.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You adulterous people,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:4 </span><span class="ft">An allusion to covenant unfaithfulness; see Hosea 3:1.</span></span></span><span class="content"> don&#8217;t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JAS.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">that the spirit he caused to dwell in us envies intensely; </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">that the Spirit he caused to dwell in us longs jealously</span></span></span><span class="content">? </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JAS.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JAS.4.6"><span class="content">&#8220;God opposes the proud</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JAS.4.6"><span class="content">but shows favor to the humble.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:6 </span><span class="ft">Prov. 3:34</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JAS.4.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JAS.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JAS.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JAS.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JAS.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JAS.4.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JAS.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:11 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brother or sister </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphos</span>) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God&#8217;s family.</span></span></span><span class="content"> or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JAS.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you&#8212;who are you to judge your neighbor?</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Boasting About Tomorrow</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JAS.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JAS.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Now listen, you who say, &#8220;Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JAS.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JAS.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Instead, you ought to say, &#8220;If it is the Lord&#8217;s will, we will live and do this or that.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JAS.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JAS.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn&#8217;t do it, it is sin for them.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Warning to Rich Oppressors</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JAS.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JAS.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JAS.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JAS.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JAS.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">yourselves as in a day of feasting</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JAS.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Patience in Suffering</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JAS.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JAS.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord&#8217;s coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JAS.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord&#8217;s coming is near. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JAS.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Don&#8217;t grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, or you will be judged. The Judge is standing at the door!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JAS.5.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JAS.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Brothers and sisters, as an example of patience in the face of suffering, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JAS.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">As you know, we count as blessed those who have persevered. You have heard of Job&#8217;s perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally brought about. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JAS.5.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JAS.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear&#8212;not by heaven or by earth or by anything else. All you need to say is a simple &#8220;Yes&#8221; or &#8220;No.&#8221; Otherwise you will be condemned.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Prayer of Faith</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JAS.5.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JAS.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Is anyone among you in trouble? Let them pray. Is anyone happy? Let them sing songs of praise. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JAS.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JAS.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JAS.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JAS.5.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JAS.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Elijah was a human being, even as we are. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JAS.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JAS.5.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JAS.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">My brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring that person back, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JAS.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of their way will save them from death and cover over a multitude of sins.</span></span></div>
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