James 5:15
Good News Translation
This prayer made in faith will heal the sick; the Lord will restore them to health, and the sins they have committed will be forgiven.

New Revised Standard Version
The prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise them up; and anyone who has committed sins will be forgiven.

Contemporary English Version
If you have faith when you pray for sick people, they will get well. The Lord will heal them, and if they have sinned, he will forgive them.

New American Bible
and the prayer of faith will save the sick person, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed any sins, he will be forgiven.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the prayer of faith shall save the sick man. And the Lord shall raise him up: and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the prayer of faith shall save the sick man. And the Lord shall raise him up: and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven him.

the prayer.

James 5:13,16 Is any of you sad? Let him pray: Is he cheerful in mind? Let him sing. . . .

James 1:6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, which is moved and carried about by the wind.

Matthew 17:20,21 But this kind is not cast out but by prayer and fasting. . . .

Matthew 21:21,22 And Jesus answering, said to them: Amen, I say to you, if you shall have faith and stagger not, not only this of the fig tree shall you do, but also if you shall say to this mountain, Take up and cast thyself into the sea, it shall be done. . . .

Mark 11:22-24 And Jesus answering, saith to them: Have the faith of God. . . .

Mark 16:17,18 And these signs shall follow them that believe: In my name they shall cast out devils. They shall speak with new tongues. . . .

1 Corinthians 12:28-30 And God indeed hath set some in the church; first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly doctors: after that miracles: then the graces of healings, helps, governments, kinds of tongues, interpretations of speeches. . . .

if he.

Isaiah 33:24 Neither shall he that is near, say: I am feeble. The people that dwell therein, shall have their iniquity taken away from them.

Matthew 9:2-6 And behold they brought to him one sick of the palsy lying in a bed. And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the man sick of the palsy: Be of good heart, son, thy sins are forgiven thee. . . .

Mark 2:5-11 And when Jesus had seen their faith, he saith to the sick of the palsy: Son, thy sins are forgiven thee. . . .

John 5:14 Afterwards, Jesus findeth him in the temple and saith to him: Behold thou art made whole: sin no more, lest some worse thing happen to thee.

1 Corinthians 11:30-32 Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you: and many sleep. . . .

1 John 5:14-16 And this is the confidence which we have towards him: That, whatsoever we shall ask according to his will, he heareth us. . . .

Context
The Prayer of Faith
14Is any man sick among you? Let him bring in the priests of the church and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15And the prayer of faith shall save the sick man. And the Lord shall raise him up: and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven him. 16Confess therefore your sins one to another: and pray one for another, that you may be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man availeth much.…
Cross References
John 6:39
Now this is the will of the Father who sent me: that of all that he hath given me, I should lose nothing; but should raise it up again in the last day.

1 Corinthians 1:21
For, seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world, by wisdom, knew not God, it pleased God, by the foolishness of our preaching, to save them that believe.

2 Corinthians 4:14
Knowing that he who raised up Jesus will raise us up also with Jesus and place us with you.

James 1:6
But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, which is moved and carried about by the wind.

James 5:20
He must know that he who causeth a sinner to be converted from the error of his way shall save his soul from death and shall cover a multitude of sins.

1 John 5:16
He that knoweth his brother to sin a sin which is not to death, let him ask: and life shall be given to him who sinneth not to death. There is a sin unto death. For that I say not that any man ask.

James 5:14
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