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Tiago 5 — Bíblia The Message, 2002 | Gospelmais
20 versículos · The Message, 2002
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1And a final word to you arrogant rich: Take some lessons in lament. You'll need buckets for the tears when the crash comes upon you.
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1Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
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2Your money is corrupt and your fine clothes stink.
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2Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
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3Your greedy luxuries are a cancer in your gut, destroying your life from within. You thought you were piling up wealth. What you've piled up is judgment.
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3Your 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.
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4All the workers you've exploited and cheated cry out for judgment. The groans of the workers you used and abused are a roar in the ears of the Master Avenger.
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4Behold, 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.
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5You've looted the earth and lived it up. But all you'll have to show for it is a fatter than usual corpse.
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5You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
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6In fact, what you've done is condemn and murder perfectly good persons, who stand there and take it.
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6You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.
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7Meanwhile, friends, wait patiently for the Master's Arrival. You see farmers do this all the time, waiting for their valuable crops to mature, patiently letting the rain do its slow but sure work.
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7Be 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.
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8Be patient like that. Stay steady and strong. The Master could arrive at any time.
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8You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
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9Friends, don't complain about each other. A far greater complaint could be lodged against you, you know. The Judge is standing just around the corner.
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9Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
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10Take the old prophets as your mentors. They put up with anything, went through everything, and never once quit, all the time honoring God.
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10Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
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11What a gift life is to those who stay the course! You've heard, of course, of Job's staying power, and you know how God brought it all together for him at the end. That's because God cares, cares right down to the last detail.
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11Behold, 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.
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12And since you know that he cares, let your language show it. Don't add words like "I swear to God" to your own words. Don't show your impatience by concocting oaths to hurry up God. Just say yes or no. Just say what is true. That way, your language can't be used against you.
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12But 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.
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13Are you hurting? Pray. Do you feel great? Sing.
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13Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.
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14Are you sick? Call the church leaders together to pray and anoint you with oil in the name of the Master.
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14Is 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,
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15Believing-prayer will heal you, and Jesus will put you on your feet. And if you've sinned, you'll be forgiven—healed inside and out.
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15and 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.
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16Make this your common practice: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed. The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with.
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16Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
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17Elijah, for instance, human just like us, prayed hard that it wouldn't rain, and it didn't—not a drop for three and a half years.
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17Elijah 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.
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18Then he prayed that it would rain, and it did. The showers came and everything started growing again.
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18He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.
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19My dear friends, if you know people who have wandered off from God's truth, don't write them off. Go after them. Get them back
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19Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,
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20and you will have rescued precious lives from destruction and prevented an epidemic of wandering away from God.
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20let 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.