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1556 The Catholic Epistle of St. James the Apostle

you have not, because you ask not. vanish away. For that you should say: If the
3 You ask, and receive not; because you ask Lord will, and if we shall live, we will do this or
amiss: that you may consume it on your concu- that.
piscences. 16 But now you rejoice in your arrogancies.
4 Adulterers, know you not that the friendship All such rejoicing is wicked.
of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever 17 To him therefore who knoweth to do good,
therefore will be a friend of this world, becometh and doth it not, to him it is sin.
an enemy of God.
5 Or do you think that the scripture saith
in vain: To envy doth the spirit covet which Chapter 5
dwelleth in you?
6 But he giveth greater grace. Wherefore he Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl in your
saith: God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace miseries, which shall come upon you.
to the humble.
2 Your riches are corrupted: and your gar-
7 Be subject therefore to God, but resist the
ments are motheaten.
devil, and he will fly from you.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered: and the
8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to
rust of them shall be for a testimony against you,
you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners: and purify
and shall eat your flesh like fire. You have stored
your hearts, ye double minded.
up to yourselves wrath against the last days.
9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your
4 Behold the hire of the labourers, who have
laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy
reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been
into sorrow.
kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them
10 Be humbled in the sight of the Lord, and
hath entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
he will exalt you.
5 You have feasted upon earth: and in riotous-
11 Detract not one another, my brethren. He
ness you have nourished your hearts, in the day
that detracteth his brother, or he that judgeth
of slaughter.
his brother, detracteth the law, and judgeth the
law. But if thou judge the law, thou art not a 6 You have condemned and put to death the
doer of the law, but a judge. Just One, and he resisted you not.
12 There is one lawgiver, and judge, that is 7 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the
able to destroy and to deliver. coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman
13 But who art thou that judgest thy neigh- waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth: pa-
bour? Behold, now you that say: To day or to tiently bearing till he receive the early and latter
morrow we will go into such a city, and there we rain.
will spend a year, and will traffic, and make our 8 Be you therefore also patient, and
gain. strengthen your hearts: for the coming of the
14 Whereas you know not what shall be on Lord is at hand.
the morrow. 9 Grudge not, brethren, one against another,
15 For what is your life? It is a vapour which that you may not be judged. Behold the judge
appeareth for a little while, and afterwards shall standeth before the door.