雅各書 5
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
警告為富不仁者
5 你們這些富有的人啊！為那將要臨到你們身上的災難痛哭哀號吧！ 2 你們的財物朽壞了，衣服也被蟲蛀了。 3 你們的金銀生了鏽，那鏽必要指控你們，像火一樣吞噬你們的身體。在末世的日子裡，你們只知道積攢財寶。 4 工人替你們收割莊稼，你們卻剋扣他們的工錢。那工錢發出不平的呼喊，工人的冤聲已經傳到萬軍之主的耳中了。 5 你們在世上奢侈享樂，在被宰殺的日子裡，把自己養得肥肥胖胖。 6 你們冤枉好人、殘害無辜，他們也沒有反抗。
要忍耐到底
7 弟兄姊妹，你們要一直忍耐到主來。你們看農夫怎樣耐心等候地裡寶貴的出產，等候秋雨和春雨的降臨。 8 同樣，你們也要忍耐，心志堅定，因為主快來了。 9 弟兄姊妹，不要互相埋怨，免得受審判。你們看，審判的主已經站在門外了。 10 弟兄姊妹，你們要效法從前奉主的名說話的先知，以他們的受苦和忍耐為榜樣。 11 我們認為那些忍耐到底的人是有福的。你們都知道約伯的忍耐，也知道主最終怎樣待他，因為主充滿憐憫和慈悲。
12 我的弟兄姊妹，最重要的是不可起誓，不可指著天起誓，也不可指著地起誓，不可指著任何東西起誓。你們說話，是就說是，不是就說不是，免得你們受審判。
禱告的力量
13 你們中間正在受苦的人應該禱告，喜樂的人應該唱歌讚美， 14 生病的人應該請教會的長老來，奉主的名用油抹他的身體並為他禱告。 15 出於信心的禱告必能使病人痊癒，主必使他康復。倘若他犯了罪，也必得到赦免。 16 所以你們要彼此認罪，互相代禱，好得到醫治。義人的禱告有極大的力量和功效。 17 以利亞先知和我們一樣同是血肉之軀，他懇切地祈求不要下雨，結果三年半沒有下雨。 18 後來他再禱告求雨，天就降雨，地也長出了莊稼。
19 我的弟兄姊妹，如果有人領一個偏離真道的人歸回正路， 20 他該知道：使一個迷途中的罪人歸回正路就是救一個靈魂脫離死亡，並且會遮蓋許多罪。
James 5
King James Version
5 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.