James 5:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

James 5:15 —

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Cross-References

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James 5:13
Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
1 John 5:14-16
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: …
James 5:16
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.
James 1:6
But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
Matthew 21:21-22
Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done. …

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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. 15)

15. prayer--He does not say the oil shall save: it is but the symbol. save--plainly not as Rome says, “save” the soul. but heal “the sick”: as the words, “the Lord shall raise him up,” prove. So the same Greek is translated, “made (thee) whole,” Mt 9:21, 22. and if ... sins--for not all who are sick are so because of some special sins. Here a case is supposed of one visited with sickness for speci…