James 5:15

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“and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.”

— WEB

“And 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.”

— KJV

“and the prayer of faith shall save him that is sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him.”

— ASV

Bible Verses About Healing

Cross-references

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1 John 5:14-16 "This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us."
James 5:13 "Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises."
James 5:16 "Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is pow…"
Matthew 21:21-22 "Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don’t doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, …"
James 1:6 "But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed."
Matthew 17:20 "He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell th…"
Mark 2:5-11 "Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”"
Mark 16:17-18 "These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages;"

Commentary

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," Mat 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 special sins. have committed--literally, "be in a state of having committed sins," that is, be under the consequences of sins committed. they--rather, "it": his having committed sins shall be forgiven him. The connection of sin and sickness is implied in Isa 33:24; Mat 9:2-5; Joh 5:14. The absolution of the sick, retained in the Church of England, refers to the sins which the sick man confesses (Jam 5:16) and repents of, whereby outward scandal has been given to the Church and the cause of religion; not to sins in their relation to God, the only Judge.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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