First ReadingJames 5:1-6
From the Letter of James
1Come now, you rich,weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.2Your riches are corruptedand your garments are moth-eaten.3Your gold and your silver are corroded,and their corrosion will be for a testimony against youand will eat your flesh like fire.You have laid up your treasure in the last days.4Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields,which you have kept back by fraud, cry out;and the cries of thosewho reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.5You have lived in luxury on the earth,and taken your pleasure.You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.6You have condemnedand you have murdered the righteous one.He doesn’t resist you.