James 5 (NET)

James 5:1¹Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud over the miseries that are coming on you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 11:281 Tim 6:9-10Prov 11:4Jas 1:11Jer 9:23Luke 12:16-21Luke 6:24-25Luke 16:19-25Matt 19:23-24Mic 6:12

James 5:2²Your riches have rotted and your clothing has become moth-eaten.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 6:19-20Job 13:28Luke 12:33Isa 50:9Isa 51:81 Pet 1:4Jer 17:11Ps 39:11Hos 5:12

James 5:3³Your gold and silver have rusted and their rust will be a witness against you. It will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have hoarded treasure!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 2:5Jas 5:7-8Rev 21:8Isa 2:2Rev 20:152 Pet 3:32 Tim 2:17Deut 32:33-34Gen 31:52Gen 49:1

James 5:4⁴Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 19:13Jer 22:13Deut 24:14-15Rom 9:29Mal 3:5Job 24:10-11Exod 22:27Exod 3:9Gen 4:10Job 34:28

James 5:5⁵You have lived indulgently and luxuriously on the earth. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Tim 5:6Luke 16:25Luke 16:19Amos 6:1Jer 12:3Rev 19:17-181 Sam 25:36Isa 22:13Jer 25:34Job 21:11-15

James 5:6⁶You have condemned and murdered the righteous person, although he does not resist you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 2:22-23Acts 8:32Isa 53:7John 19:9-11Luke 22:51-53Matt 5:391 Thess 2:15-16Acts 2:22-23Acts 22:14Acts 3:14-15

James 5:7⁷So be patient, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s return. Think of how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the ground and is patient for it until it receives the early and late rains.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 12:1-3Jas 5:8-9Joel 2:23Gal 6:9Deut 11:14Col 1:112 Cor 6:4-5Rom 2:7Heb 6:15Jer 5:24

James 5:8⁸You also be patient and strengthen your hearts, for the Lord’s return is near.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 5:9Gal 5:22Ps 37:71 Pet 4:7Ps 27:14Phil 4:51 Thess 3:13Rev 22:20Lam 3:25-26Mic 7:7

James 5:9⁹Do not grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be judged. See, the judge stands before the gates!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 19:181 Cor 4:5Jas 4:11Matt 24:33Gal 5:14Matt 6:14-151 Pet 4:9Gen 4:7Matt 7:1-21 Cor 10:11

James 5:10¹⁰As an example of suffering and patience, brothers and sisters, take the prophets who spoke in the Lord’s name.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 11:32-38Matt 5:11-12Heb 13:7Acts 7:521 Thess 2:14-15Acts 3:21Luke 6:232 Chr 36:16Isa 39:8Jer 2:30

James 5:11¹¹Think of how we regard as blessed those who have endured. You have heard of Job’s endurance and you have seen the Lord’s purpose, that the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 1:12Exod 34:6Job 1:21-22Isa 55:6-7Matt 10:22Matt 5:10-11Job 42:10-172 Pet 2:9Job 2:10Ps 86:15

James 5:12¹²And above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath. But let your “Yes” be yes and your “No” be no, so that you may not fall into judgment.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 5:33-37Matt 23:16-222 Cor 1:17-20

James 5:13¹³Is anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone in good spirits? He should sing praises.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 50:15Jonah 2:2Eph 5:19Acts 16:24-25Heb 5:7Rev 19:1-6Rev 5:9-14Hos 6:1Jonah 2:72 Cor 12:7-10

James 5:14¹⁴Is anyone among you ill? He should summon the elders of the church, and they should pray for him and anoint him with olive oil in the name of the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 6:13Acts 28:8Mark 16:182 Kgs 4:332 Kgs 5:11Acts 9:40Acts 14:23Acts 15:4Titus 1:51 Kgs 17:21

James 5:15¹⁵And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick and the Lord will raise him up—and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 5:14-16Jas 5:13Jas 5:16Matt 21:21-22Jas 1:6Matt 17:20Mark 2:5-11Mark 16:17-18Isa 33:24John 5:14

James 5:16¹⁶So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great effectiveness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 29:12-13Prov 15:29Matt 21:22Ps 34:15John 9:31Jer 33:3Ps 145:18-191 Pet 2:24Matt 7:7-111 John 3:22

James 5:17¹⁷Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain and there was no rain on the land for three years and six months!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 17:1Luke 4:251 Kgs 18:1Rev 11:6Acts 14:15Acts 10:26Rom 11:2

James 5:18¹⁸Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the land sprouted with a harvest.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 18:42-45Jer 14:221 Kgs 18:18Acts 14:17

James 5:19¹⁹My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 6:1Matt 18:15Jas 5:20Jude 1:22-23Ezek 34:16Luke 22:322 Pet 3:171 Tim 6:10Ezek 34:4Isa 3:12

James 5:20²⁰he 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 4:8Prov 10:121 Tim 4:16Prov 11:30Jas 5:19Rom 11:141 Cor 9:22Jas 1:15Prov 11:4Ps 32:1