Your riches have rotted and your clothing has become moth-eaten.

Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you?

because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

So submit to God. But resist the devil and he will flee from you.

But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

Your gold and silver have rusted and their rust will be a witness against you. It will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have hoarded treasure!

Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

For if someone comes into your assembly wearing a gold ring and fine clothing, and a poor person enters in filthy clothes,

But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich oppressing you and dragging you into the courts?

you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.

Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter into mourning and your joy into despair.

Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud over the miseries that are coming on you.

You have lived indulgently and luxuriously on the earth. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

You also be patient and strengthen your hearts, for the Lord’s return is near.

But if anyone is deficient in wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without reprimand, and it will be given to him.

So put away all filth and evil excess and humbly welcome the message implanted within you, which is able to save your souls.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.

You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.

and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm and eat well,” but you do not give them what the body needs, what good is it?

And above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath. But let your “Yes” be yes and your “No” be no, so that you may not fall into judgment.