e of patience and long-suffering.
[5:11]Behold, we account them blessed who are patient. You have heard
of the patience of Job, and you know the purpose of the Lord, that he
is very merciful and compassionate.

8 [5:12]Above all things, my brothers, swear not, neither by heaven,
nor the earth, nor any other oath. But let your yes be yes, and your
no, no, that you may not fall under condemnation.

9 [5:13]If any one among you is afflicted, let him pray; if any one is
happy, let him sing psalms; [5:14]if any one is sick among you, let him
send for the elders of the church, and let them pray for him, anointing
him with oil in the name of the Lord. [5:15]And the prayer of faith
shall save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he has
committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. [5:16]Confess your faults
one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be cured, for
the prayer of the righteous operates with great power. [5:17]Elijah was
a man of like passions with us, and he prayed that it might not rain,
and it rained not on the land for three years and six months; [5:18]
and again he prayed, and heaven gave rain, and the earth yielded her
fruit.

10 [5:19]Brothers, if any one among you errs from the truth, and one
converts him, [5:20]let him know that he who converts a sinner from an
error of [his] way, shall save a soul from death, and hide a multitude
of sins.

FIRST EPISTLE OF PETER.

BABYLON, A.D. 64.

CHAPTER I.

A FIRM ADHERENCE TO CHRIST, ETC.

1 [1:1]PETER, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect strangers of the
dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia,
[1:2]according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by
sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and the sprinkling of the
blood of Jesus Christ. Grace and peace be multiplied to you.

2 [1:3]Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in
his great mercy has begotten us to a living hope through the
resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, [1:4]to an inheritance
incorruptible and undefiled and unfading, kept in heaven for you
[1:5]who are kept by the power of God through faith to salvation ready
to be revealed in the last time. [1:6]In which you rejoice, though now
for a little while if need be made sad by manifold trials, [1:7]that
the trial of your faith, which is much more precious than gold that is
destroyed but proved by fire, may be found to praise and glory and
honor at the r