James 5:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

James 5:13 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 50:15
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Jonah 2:2
And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.
Acts 16:24-25
Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. …
Ephesians 5:19
Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
Hebrews 5:7
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

Topics

Afflicted Afflictions and Adversities Contentment Despondency Doxology Gladness God Happiness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-20)

This epistle now drawing to a close, the penman goes off very quickly from one thing to another: hence it is that matters so very different are insisted on in these few verses. I. The sin of swearing is cautioned against: But above all things, my brethren, swear not, etc., Jas. 5:12. Some understand this too restrictedly, as if the meaning were, “Swear not at your persecutors, at those that reproa…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13. afflicted--referring to the “suffering affliction” (Jas 5:10). let him pray--not “swear” in rash impatience. merry--joyous in mind. sing psalms--of praise. Paul and Silas sang psalms even in affliction.