NOW LISTEN
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Now listen, you who say, Today or tomorrow we will go
to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business
and make money. Why, you do not even know what will
happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that
appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you
ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this
or that.” As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil.
Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t
do it,sins.
Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery
that is coming upon you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths hav
eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion
will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded
wealth in the last days. Look! The wages you failed to pay the workmen
who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the
harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived
on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in
the day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered innocent men,
who were not opposing you.
Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits
for the land to yield its va;luable crop and how patient he is for the autumn and
spring rains. You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord’s coming is near.
Don’t grumble against each other, brothers, or you will be judged. The judge is
standing at the door!
(James 4.13-16; 5.1-9).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!