James · American Standard Version (1901)
James 5 American Standard Version (1901)
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1 Come now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you.
1 EA ya ahora, oh ricos, llorad aullando por vuestras miserias que os vendrán.
1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
2 Vuestras riquezas están podridas: vuestras ropas están comidas de polilla.
2 Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
3 Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days.
3 Vuestro oro y plata están corrompidos de orín; y su orín os será en testimonio, y comerá del todo vuestras carnes como fuego. Os habéis allegado tesoro para en los postreros días.
3 Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.
4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
4 He aquí, el jornal de los obreros que han segado vuestras tierras, el cual por engaño no les ha sido pagado de vosotros, clama; y los clamores de los que habían segado, han entrado en los oídos del Señor de los ejércitos.
4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
5 Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.
5 Habéis vivido en deleites sobre la tierra, y sido disolutos; habéis cebado vuestros corazones como en el día de sacrificios.
5 You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
6 Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous [one]; he doth not resist you.
6 Habéis condenado [y] muerto al justo; [y] él no os resiste.
6 You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.
7 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter rain.
7 Pues, hermanos, tened paciencia hasta la venida del Señor. Mirad [cómo] el labrador espera el precioso fruto de la tierra, aguardando con paciencia, hasta que reciba la lluvia temprana y tardía.
7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
8 Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
8 Tened también vosotros paciencia; confirmad vuestros corazones: porque la venida del Señor se acerca.
8 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
9 Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that ye be not judged: behold, the judge standeth before the doors.
9 Hermanos, no os quejéis unos contra otros, porque no seáis condenados; he aquí, el juez está delante de la puerta.
9 Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
10 Take, brethren, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spake in the name of the Lord.
10 Hermanos míos, tomad por ejemplo de aflicción y de paciencia, á los profetas que hablaron en nombre del Señor.
10 Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
11 Behold, we call them blessed that endured: ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, how that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful.
11 He aquí, tenemos por bienaventurados á los que sufren. Habéis oído la paciencia de Job, y habéis visto el fin del Señor, que el Señor es muy misericordioso y piadoso.
11 Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay; that ye fall not under judgment.
12 Mas sobre todo, hermanos míos, no juréis, ni por el cielo, ni por la tierra, ni por otro cualquier juramento; sino vuestro sí sea sí, y vuestro no sea no; porque no caigáis en condenación.
12 But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear—not by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”, so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.
13 Is any among you suffering? let him pray. Is any cheerful? let him sing praise.
13 ¿Está alguno entre vosotros afligido? haga oración. ¿Está alguno alegre? cante salmos.
13 Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.
14 Is any among you sick? 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:
14 ¿Está alguno enfermo entre vosotros? llame á los ancianos de la iglesia, y oren por él, ungiéndole con aceite en el nombre del Señor.
14 Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;
15 and the prayer of faith shall save him that is sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him.
15 Y la oración de fe salvará al enfermo, y el Señor lo levantará; y si estuviere en pecados, le serán perdonados.
15 and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
16 Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.
16 Confesaos vuestras faltas unos á otros, y rogad los unos por los otros, para que seáis sanos; la oración del justo, obrando eficazmente, puede mucho.
16 Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
17 Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months.
17 Elías era hombre sujeto á semejantes pasiones que nosotros, y rogó con oración que no lloviese, y no llovió sobre la tierra en tres años y seis meses.
17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.
18 And he prayed again; and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
18 Y otra vez oró, y el cielo dió lluvia, y la tierra produjo su fruto.
18 He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.
19 My brethren, if any among you err from the truth, and one convert him;
19 Hermanos, si alguno de entre vosotros ha errado de la verdad, y alguno le convirtiere,
19 Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,
20 let him know, that he who converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.
20 Sepa que el que hubiere hecho convertir al pecador del error de su camino, salvará un alma de muerte, y cubrirá multitud de pecados.
20 let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
Cross references (20)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Proverbs 11:28; 1 Timothy 6:9–10; Proverbs 11:4; James 1:11; Luke 6:24–25
- 2 Matthew 6:19–20; Job 13:28; Luke 12:33; Isaiah 50:9; Isaiah 51:8
- 3 Romans 2:5; James 5:7–8; Revelation 21:8; Revelation 20:15; Isaiah 2:2
- 4 Leviticus 19:13; Jeremiah 22:13; Deuteronomy 24:14–15; Romans 9:29; Malachi 3:5
- 5 1 Timothy 5:6; Luke 16:25; Luke 16:19; Revelation 19:17–18; Amos 6:1
- 6 1 Peter 2:22–23; John 19:9–11; Matthew 5:39; Acts 8:32; Isaiah 53:7
- 7 Hebrews 12:1–3; James 5:8–9; Joel 2:23; Galatians 6:9; Deuteronomy 11:14
- 8 James 5:9; Galatians 5:22; Psalm 37:7; 1 Peter 4:7; Psalm 27:14
- 9 Leviticus 19:18; 1 Corinthians 4:5; James 4:11; Galatians 5:14; Matthew 7:1–2
- 10 Hebrews 11:32–38; Matthew 5:11–12; Hebrews 13:7; 1 Thessalonians 2:14–15; Acts 7:52
- 11 James 1:12; Exodus 34:6; Job 1:21–22; Isaiah 55:6–7; Matthew 5:10–11
- 12 Matthew 5:33–37; Matthew 23:16–22; 2 Corinthians 1:17–20
- 13 Psalm 50:15; Jonah 2:2; Ephesians 5:19; Acts 16:24–25; Revelation 19:1–6
- 14 Mark 6:13; Acts 28:8; Mark 16:18; 2 Kings 5:11; Acts 9:40
- 15 1 John 5:14–16; James 5:13; James 5:16; James 1:6; Matthew 21:21–22
- 16 Jeremiah 29:12–13; Proverbs 15:29; Matthew 21:22; Psalm 34:15; John 9:31
- 17 1 Kings 17:1; Luke 4:25; 1 Kings 18:1; Revelation 11:6; Acts 14:15
- 18 1 Kings 18:42–45; Jeremiah 14:22; 1 Kings 18:18; Acts 14:17
- 19 Galatians 6:1; Matthew 18:15; James 5:20; Jude 22–23; Luke 22:32
- 20 1 Peter 4:8; Proverbs 10:12; 1 Timothy 4:16; Proverbs 11:30; Romans 11:14
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Let us listen to the Apostle James, who states this precept with the greatest clearness when he says, "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another." For of this also the Lord gave us the example.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)
Also, the converting our brethren from their wandering. For, it is said, "Go thou, and convert thy brethren, that thy sins may be forgiven thee." And from one's being in close relations with the priests, "and if," it is said, "a man hath committed sins it shall be forgiven him." ( Jas.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 14 (1889)