Yourgold and silver is cankered; and the rust of themshall be a witnessagainst you, and shall eat yourflesh as it werefire. Ye haveheapedtreasuretogether for the lastdays.
Behold, the hire of the labourers who havereapeddownyourfields, which is of you keptback by fraud, crieth: and the cries of themwhichhavereaped are enteredinto the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Be patienttherefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandmanwaiteth for the preciousfruit of the earth, and hathlongpatience for it, until he receive the early and latterrain.
Behold, we countthemhappywhichendure. Ye haveheard of the patience of Job, and haveseen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is verypitiful, and of tendermercy.
But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any otheroath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fallintocondemnation.
Elias was a man subject to likepassions as we are, and he prayedearnestlythat it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of threeyears and six months.