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Second Reading for the Sunday of the 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B

James 5:1-6

Summary: The rich are admonished for hoarding wealth and exploiting workers; their luxury and injustice will lead to their downfall.

Warning to the Rich

Come now, you rich, weep and wail over your impending miseries. Your wealth has rotted away, your clothes have become moth-eaten, your gold and silver have corroded, and that corrosion will be a testimony against you; it will devour your flesh like a fire.

You have stored up treasure for the last days. Behold, the wages you withheld from the workers who harvested your fields are crying aloud; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

You have lived on earth in luxury and pleasure; you have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.

You have condemned; you have murdered the righteous one; he offers you no resistance.

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