Tiago 5

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. 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 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.*5:4 Greek: Sabaoth (or Hebrew: Tze’va’ot) 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 You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.

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 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

9 Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door. 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 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 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.*5:12 TR reads "under judgment" instead of "into hypocrisy"

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 assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; 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 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 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 He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.

19 Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back, 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.

Whakatūpato ki te Whai Rawa

1 Tēnā, e te hunga taonga, e tangi koutou, auē ki ō koutou mate meāke nei puta mai. 2 Kua pirau ō koutou taonga, kua kainga ō koutou kākahu e te huhu. 3 Kua waikuratia tā koutou kōura, me tā koutou hiriwa; ko te waikura anō o aua mea hei kaiwhakaatu i tō koutou hē, hei kai hoki i ō koutou kikokiko, ānō he kāpura. Kua pae nā i a koutou he taonga mō ngā rā whakamutunga. 4 Nanā, kei te karanga te utu i kaiponuhia e koutou mā ngā kaimahi nāna i kokoti ā koutou māra, kua tae atu anō hoki ngā karanga a ngā kaikokoti ki ngā taringa o te Ariki o ngā Mano Tini.

5 Kua kai koutou i ngā kai papai i runga i te whenua, whāia ana e koutou a te tinana whakaahuareka; atawhaitia ana e koutou ō koutou ngākau, me te mea anō ko te rā okanga tēnei. 6 Whakatakā ana e koutou ki te hē, patua iho te mea tika, kīhai anō ia i pēhi atu i tā koutou.

Te Manawanui me te Īnoi

7 Nā, tatari mārie koutou, e ōku tēina, ki te haerenga mai o te Ariki. Nā, tūmanako tonu te kaingaki ki ngā hua utu nui o te whenua, he mea tatari mārie atu nāna, kia tae mai rā anō tō mua me tō muri ua. 8 Tatari mārie anō hoki koutou. Kia ū ō koutou ngākau; kua tata hoki te haerenga mai o te Ariki. 9 Kaua e amuamu tētahi ki tētahi, e ōku tēina; kei whakatakā koutou ki te hē. Nanā, kei ngā tatau te kaiwhakawā e tū ana.

10 Ko ngā poropiti i kōrero nei i runga i te ingoa o te Ariki, waiho rātou, e ōku tēina, hei tauira mō te whakamanawanui ki ngā kino, mō te tatari mārie. 11 Nanā, ki tā tātou he hari te hunga e whakamanawanui ana. Kua rongo koutou ki te manawanui o Hopa, kua kite hoki i tō te Ariki whakamutunga, he nui tō te Ariki aroha, me tāna mahi tohu.

12 Ko te tuatahi ia o ngā mea katoa, e ōku tēina, kaua te rangi, kaua te whenua, kaua tētahi atu oati, e oatitia e koutou; engari me "Āe" tā koutou "Āe", me "Kāhore" tā koutou "Kāhore," kei taka koutou ki te whakawā.

13 Ki te pāngia tētahi o koutou e te mamae, me īnoi. Ki te koa te ngākau o tētahi, me waiata. 14 Ki te tūroro tētahi i roto i a koutou, me karanga e ia ki ngā kaumātua o te hāhi; ā, mā rātou e īnoi ki runga ki a ia, me te whakawahi anō i a ia ki te hinu i runga i te ingoa o te Ariki. 15 Ā, e ora te tūroro i te īnoi whakapono, mā te Ariki anō ia e whakaara ake; ki te mea hoki kua mahi hara ia, ka murua tōna hara. 16 Whākina ō koutou hē tētahi ki tētahi, me īnoi anō koutou tētahi mō tētahi, kia ora ai ō koutou mate. Nui atu te mana o te īnoi kaha a te tangata tika.

17 He tangata a Irāia, he rite tahi te ngākau ki ō tātou, heoi, ka kaha nei tāna īnoi kia kaua e ua; kore ake he ua ki runga ki te whenua, ā, e toru ngā tau, e ono ngā marama. 18 Īnoi ana anō ia, ā, ka hōmai he ua e te rangi, nā, hua ana ngā hua o te whenua. 19 E ōku tēina, ki te kotiti kē tētahi o koutou i te pono, ā, ka meinga e tētahi kia tahuri mai anō, 20 kia mātau ia, ko te tangata i tahuri ai te tangata hara i te hē o tōna ara, e ora i a ia he wairua kei mate, he tini anō ngā hara ka hīpokina e ia.