Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
19 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “your” →
Knowing this , that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you .
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
