A Warning to the Rich
(1 Timothy 6:17–19)

1Come now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you! 2Your wealth has become corrupted, and your garments have become moth-eaten. 3Your gold and silver are covered with rust, and their rust will be for a witness against you, and will eat your flesh, as fire. Ye laid up treasures in the last days! 4Behold, the hire of the workmen who mowed down your fields, which is fraudulently kept back by you, is crying out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. 5Ye lived luxuriously on the earth, and rioted in pleasure; ye nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter. 6Ye condemned, ye killed the righteous one; he does not resist you.

Patience in Suffering

7Be patient, therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth; being patient over it, until it receives the early and latter rain. 8Be ye also patient; establish your hearts, because the coming of the Lord has drawn near. 9Murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye be not judged: behold, The Judge has taken His stand before the doors! 10Take, brethren, as an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets, who spake in the name of the Lord. 11Behold, we pronounce those happy who endured: ye heard of the patience of Job; and ye saw the end of the Lord, that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful.

12But above all things, my brethren, swear not, either by Heaven, or by earth, or by any other oath; but let yours be "the yes, yes," and "the no, no"; that ye fall not under condemnation.

The Prayer of Faith

13Is anyone among you afflicted? let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? let him sing praise. 14Is anyone among you sick? let him call for the elders of the assembly; and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil in the name of the Lord; 15and the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and, if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him. 16Confess, therefore, your sins one to another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. A righteous man's inwrought supplication avails much. 17Elijah was a man of like nature with us; and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months; 18and again he prayed, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth its fruit.

Restoring a Sinner

19My brethren, if anyone among you be led astray from the truth, and one convert him; 20let him know that he who converted a sinner from the error of his way, will save a soul from death, and cover a multitude of sins.