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James 5

Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner revision (1749–1752), the traditional Catholic English Bible, translated from the Latin Vulgate. If you read a modern Bible, this is the same Scripture in older English; some names are spelled differently (Cesarea for Caesarea, Apocalypse for Revelation). About this translation

1 Go to now, ye rich men: weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you. CCC

2 Your riches are corrupted: and your garments are motheaten. CCC

3 Your gold and silver is cankered: and the rust of them shall be for a testimony against you and shall eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up to yourselves wrath against the last days. CCC

4 Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. CCC

5 You have feasted upon earth: and in riotousness you have nourished your hearts, in the day of slaughter. CCC

6 You have condemned and put to death the Just One: and he resisted you not. CCC

7 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth: patiently bearing till he receive the early and latter rain.

8 Be you therefore also patient and strengthen your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

9 Grudge not, brethren, one against another, that you may not be judged. Behold the judge standeth before the door.

10 Take, my brethren, for an example of suffering evil, of labour and patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

11 Behold, we account them blessed who have endured. You have heard of the patience of Job and you have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is merciful and compassionate.

12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath. But let your speech be: Yea, Yea: No, No: that you fall not under judgment. CCC

13 Is any of you sad? Let him pray: Is he cheerful in mind? Let him sing.

14 Is any man sick among you? Let him bring in the priests of the church and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 1 CCC

15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick man. And the Lord shall raise him up: and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven him. CCC

16 Confess therefore your sins one to another: and pray one for another, that you may be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man availeth much. 2 CCC

17 Elias was a man passible like unto us: and with prayer he prayed that it might not rain upon the earth. And it rained not for three years and six months.

18 And he prayed again. And the heaven gave rain: and the earth brought forth her fruit.

19 My brethren, if any of you err from the truth and one convert him:

20 He must know that he who causeth a sinner to be converted from the error of his way shall save his soul from death and shall cover a multitude of sins. CCC · Fathers

Where our lessons quote this chapter

  1. Verses 14–15: The Sacraments
  2. Verse 16: The saints, and asking for prayers

This chapter in the Catechism and the early Church

Where the Catechism of the Catholic Church cites these verses (from its footnotes on vatican.va), and where the earliest Church Fathers quote them (Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, public domain). Short quotes only; follow the links for the full text.

  1. Verse 1CCC 2445
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    • CCC 2445 “Love for the poor is incompatible with immoderate love of riches or their selfish use: Come now, you rich, weep and howl…”
  2. Verse 2CCC 2445
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    • CCC 2445 “Love for the poor is incompatible with immoderate love of riches or their selfish use: Come now, you rich, weep and howl…”
  3. Verse 3CCC 2445
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    • CCC 2445 “Love for the poor is incompatible with immoderate love of riches or their selfish use: Come now, you rich, weep and howl…”
  4. Verse 4CCC 1867 CCC 2409 CCC 2434 CCC 2445
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    • CCC 1867 “The catechetical tradition also recalls that there are "sins that cry to heaven": the blood of Abel, The sin of the Sodomites,…”
    • CCC 2409 “Even if it does not contradict the provisions of civil law, any form of unjustly taking and keeping the property of others…”
    • CCC 2434 “A just wage is the legitimate fruit of work. To refuse or withhold it can be a grave injustice. In determining fair…”
    • CCC 2445 “Love for the poor is incompatible with immoderate love of riches or their selfish use: Come now, you rich, weep and howl…”
  5. Verse 5CCC 2445
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    • CCC 2445 “Love for the poor is incompatible with immoderate love of riches or their selfish use: Come now, you rich, weep and howl…”
  6. Verse 6CCC 2445
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    • CCC 2445 “Love for the poor is incompatible with immoderate love of riches or their selfish use: Come now, you rich, weep and howl…”
  7. Verse 12CCC 2153
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    • CCC 2153 “In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus explained the second commandment: "You have heard that it was said to the men of…”
  8. Verse 14CCC 1499 CCC 1510 CCC 1511 CCC 1519
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    • CCC 1499 “By the sacred anointing of the sick and the prayer of the priests the whole Church commends those who are ill to…”
    • CCC 1510 “However, the apostolic Church has its own rite for the sick, attested to by St. James: "Is any among you sick? Let…”
    • CCC 1511 “The Church believes and confesses that among the seven sacraments there is one especially intended to strengthen those who are being tried…”
    • CCC 1519 “The celebration of the sacrament includes the following principal elements: the "priests of the Church" - in silence - lay hands on…”
  9. Verse 15CCC 1499 CCC 1510 CCC 1511 CCC 1519
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    • CCC 1499 “By the sacred anointing of the sick and the prayer of the priests the whole Church commends those who are ill to…”
    • CCC 1510 “However, the apostolic Church has its own rite for the sick, attested to by St. James: "Is any among you sick? Let…”
    • CCC 1511 “The Church believes and confesses that among the seven sacraments there is one especially intended to strengthen those who are being tried…”
    • CCC 1519 “The celebration of the sacrament includes the following principal elements: the "priests of the Church" - in silence - lay hands on…”
  10. Verse 16CCC 1499 CCC 2582 CCC 2737
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    • CCC 1499 “By the sacred anointing of the sick and the prayer of the priests the whole Church commends those who are ill to…”
    • CCC 2582 “Elijah is the "father" of the prophets, "the generation of those who seek him, who seek the face of the God of…”
    • CCC 2737 “You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions." If we ask with a divided…”
  11. Verse 20CCC 1434
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    • CCC 1434 “The interior penance of the Christian can be expressed in many and various ways. Scripture and the Fathers insist above all on…”

    • “Love covers a multitude of sins.”

      Quoted in First Letter to the Corinthians, St. Clement of Rome (c. AD 96), Chapter XLIX. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1

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