James 5:14-16
1599 Geneva Bible
14 [a]Is any sick among you? Let him call for the Elders of the Church, and let them pray for him, and anoint him with (A)[b]oil in the [c]Name of the Lord.
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up: and if he have committed [d]sins, they shall be forgiven him.
16 [e]Acknowledge your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed: [f]for the prayer of a righteous man availeth much, if it be fervent.
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- James 5:14 He showeth peculiarly, to what physicians especially we must go, when we are diseased, to wit, to the prayers of the Elders, which then also could cure the body, (for so much as the gift of healing was then in force) and take away the chiefest cause of sickness and diseases, by obtaining for the sick through their prayers and exhortations, remission of sins.
- James 5:14 This was a sign of the gift of healing: and now seeing we have the gift no more, the sign is no longer necessary.
- James 5:14 By calling on the Name of the Lord.
- James 5:15 He hath reason in making mention of sins, for diseases are for the most part sent because of sins.
- James 5:16 Because God pardoneth their sins which confess and acknowledge them, and not theirs which justify themselves, therefore the Apostle addeth, that we ought freely to confer one with another touching those inward diseases, that we may help one another with our prayers.
- James 5:16 He commendeth prayers by the effects that come of them, that all men may understand that there is nothing more effectual than they are, so that they proceed from a pure mind.
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