These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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James 5
Brit Hadashah 20 verses
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Come, you rich men, weep aloud and howl for your sorrows which will soon be upon you.
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Proverbs 11:28 Deuteronomy 8:12-14 Luke 6:24-25 James 4:13 Isaiah 13:6 Jeremiah 9:23 Proverbs 11:4 Luke 16:19-25 Jeremiah 4:8 Psalm 49:6-20 James 4:9 Zephaniah 1:18 Ecclesiastes 5:13-14 Amos 6:6-7 Psalm 73:3-9 James 2:6 Luke 12:16-21 Joel 1:5 Nehemiah 9:25-26 Zechariah 11:2-3 Job 20:15-29 Revelation 6:15-17 Joel 1:13 Isaiah 22:12-13 Ezekiel 19:2 Psalm 73:18-20 Micah 6:12 Luke 23:28-29 Matthew 19:23-24 Psalm 17:14 Joel 1:11 James 1:11 Deuteronomy 32:15 1 Timothy 6:9-10 -
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Your treasures have rotted, and your piles of clothing are moth-eaten;
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- 3 your gold and your silver have become covered with rust, and the rust on them will give evidence against you, and will eat your like fire. You have hoarded up wealth in these last days.
- 4 I tell you that the pay of the labourers who have gathered in your crops—pay which you are keeping back—is calling out against you; and the outcries of those who have been your reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of the armies of Heaven.
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Here on earth you have lived self-indulgent and profligate lives. You have stupefied yourselves with gross feeding; but a day of slaughter has come.
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1 Timothy 5:6 Jeremiah 12:3 Luke 16:19 Amos 6:1 Jeremiah 25:34 Job 21:11-15 1 Samuel 25:36 Ezekiel 39:17 Proverbs 17:1 1 Samuel 25:6 Revelation 19:17-18 Amos 6:4-6 Isaiah 3:16 Isaiah 22:13 Luke 16:25 Romans 13:13 Isaiah 47:8 Revelation 18:7 2 Timothy 3:4 2 Peter 2:13 Proverbs 7:14 Isaiah 5:11-12 Jude 1:12 Isaiah 56:12 Ecclesiastes 11:9 Psalm 17:14 Psalm 73:7 -
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You have condemned—you have murdered—the righteous man: he offers no resistance.
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Luke 22:51-53 1 Peter 2:22-23 Acts 8:32 Matthew 5:39 Acts 3:14-15 John 16:2-3 Matthew 26:53-54 Acts 13:27-28 Acts 4:10-12 Acts 2:22-23 Hebrews 10:38 Matthew 27:24-25 Matthew 21:38 1 Thessalonians 2:15-16 Acts 7:52 Acts 22:14 James 4:2 John 19:9-11 Isaiah 53:7 James 2:6 Matthew 23:34-35 Matthew 27:20 -
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Be patient therefore, brethren, until the Coming of the Lord. Notice how eagerly a farmer waits for a valuable crop! He is patient over it till it has received the early and the later rain.
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Deuteronomy 11:14 Jeremiah 5:24 Joel 2:23 Galatians 6:9 1 Thessalonians 2:19 Colossians 1:11 Matthew 24:27 Galatians 5:5 1 Corinthians 1:7 1 Thessalonians 1:3 Hebrews 6:15 Luke 21:27 Romans 8:24-25 Hebrews 12:1-3 1 Thessalonians 3:13 2 Corinthians 6:4-5 Luke 18:8 Luke 8:15 Matthew 24:44 James 5:8-9 Romans 15:4 Zechariah 10:1 Hosea 6:3 Romans 2:7 2 Peter 3:4 -
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So you also must be patient: keeping up your courage; for the Coming of the Lord is now close at hand.
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- 9 Do not cry out in condemnation of one another, brethren, lest you come under judgement. I tell you that the Judge is standing at the door.
- 10 In illustration, brethren, of persecution patiently endured take the Prophets who have spoken as messengers from the Lord.
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Remember that we call those blessed who endured what they did. You have also heard of Job’s patient endurance, and have seen the issue of the Lord’s dealings with him—how full of tenderness and pity the Lord is.
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Job 1:21-22 Exodus 34:6 Matthew 5:10-11 Job 2:10 Job 42:10-17 Psalm 103:8 Daniel 9:18-19 Numbers 14:18 Isaiah 63:7 Luke 6:36 Nehemiah 9:31 Psalm 51:1 Psalm 119:132 1 Chronicles 21:13 Romans 2:4 Psalm 86:5 James 1:12 Psalm 103:13 Psalm 37:37 Lamentations 3:22 Isaiah 63:9 Psalm 86:15 Hebrews 3:14 Psalm 78:38 1 Peter 1:6-7 1 Peter 1:13 Isaiah 55:6-7 Psalm 136:1-26 Ephesians 2:4 Daniel 9:9 Job 1:2 Psalm 94:12 Ecclesiastes 7:8 Matthew 10:22 2 Peter 2:9 Psalm 25:6-7 Micah 7:18 Hebrews 3:6 Jonah 4:2 Luke 1:50 Joel 2:13 Job 23:10 Ephesians 1:6 Hebrews 10:39 Nehemiah 9:17 Psalm 116:5 Job 13:15-16 2 Chronicles 30:9 Psalm 145:8 -
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But above all things, my brethren, do not swear, either by Heaven or by the earth, or with any other oath. Let your ‘yes’ be simply ‘yes,’ and your ‘no’ be simply ‘no;’ that you may not come under condemnation.
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Is one of you suffering? Let him pray. Is any one in good spirits? Let him sing a psalm.
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Psalm 50:15 Hebrews 5:7 Acts 16:24-25 Ephesians 5:19 Jonah 2:7 Psalm 116:3-5 Psalm 91:15 Revelation 5:9-14 Daniel 5:4 Psalm 18:6 Revelation 7:10 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 Micah 4:5 Revelation 19:1-6 Luke 23:42 Psalm 118:5 Matthew 26:30 Judges 16:23-25 Psalm 142:1-3 Job 33:26 Revelation 14:3 Colossians 3:16-17 Psalm 95:2 1 Chronicles 16:9 1 Corinthians 14:26 Lamentations 3:55-56 Jonah 2:2 Hosea 6:1 2 Chronicles 33:12-13 Luke 22:44 Psalm 105:2 -
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Is any one ill? Let him send for the Elders of the Church, and let them pray over him, after anointing him with oil in the of the Lord.
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- 15 And the prayer of will restore the sick man, and the Lord will raise him up to health; and if he has committed sins, they shall be forgiven.
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Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be cured. The heartfelt supplication of a righteous man exerts a mighty influence.
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John 9:31 Proverbs 15:29 1 John 3:22 Psalm 34:15 Matthew 21:22 Acts 19:18 Luke 11:11-13 Psalm 10:17-18 Jeremiah 29:12-13 1 Peter 2:24 Genesis 20:17 Psalm 145:18-19 Numbers 11:2 Hebrews 12:13 Job 42:8 1 Thessalonians 5:17 Proverbs 15:8 Proverbs 28:9 Luke 18:1-8 Matthew 3:6 Genesis 18:23-32 Exodus 9:28-29 Romans 5:19 2 Kings 20:2-5 2 Chronicles 32:20-22 Joshua 10:12 2 Kings 4:33-35 Exodus 9:33 Genesis 41:9-10 Genesis 19:29 Genesis 20:7 Luke 7:3-4 Jeremiah 33:3 Exodus 32:10-14 1 Thessalonians 5:23 2 Chronicles 30:20 Deuteronomy 9:18-20 Matthew 7:7-11 Acts 10:38 1 Kings 17:18-24 Colossians 1:9 1 Thessalonians 5:25 Daniel 9:20-22 Romans 3:10 Acts 4:24-31 Hebrews 11:7 Genesis 32:28 Acts 12:5-11 Exodus 17:11 2 Kings 19:15-20 Numbers 21:7-9 Numbers 14:13-20 2 Chronicles 14:11-12 Hosea 12:3-4 Hebrews 11:4 Matthew 18:15-17 Luke 9:6 1 Kings 13:6 Jeremiah 15:1 Daniel 2:18-23 Hebrews 13:18 1 Samuel 12:18 2 Samuel 19:19 -
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was a man with a nature similar to ours, and he earnestly prayed that there might be no rain: and no rain fell on the land for three years and six months.
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Again he prayed, and the sky gave rain and the land yielded its crops.
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- 19 My brethren, if one of you strays from the and some one brings him back,
- 20 let him that he who brings a sinner back from his evil ways will the man’s from death and throw a veil over a multitude of sins.