James 5

James 5:3

And the rust of them shall be a witness against you: and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

And the rust of them shall justly convince you of your uncharitable and wicked covetousness; who would rather suffer these your metals to corrupt with hoarding them up in your chests, than to lay them forth upon the necessities of your brethren: yea, this very rust of your silver shall fret and eat into your very flesh and bones, and shall be a means of consuming you.

James 5:11

And have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

And ye have seen the happy end, which it pleased the Lord to put unto those his patient sufferings.

James 5:12

But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.

Be ye true and steady in all that ye affirm or deny: not inconstantly varying in what ye speak; lest, through falsehood

James 5:14

Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:

Is any man sick among you, let him send for the Pastors or Ministers of the Church, and let them pray for him and with him; and, while the miraculous gift of healing continueth in the Church, let them make use of that sign which Christ hath ordained for that purpose, viz. calling upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, let them anoint him with oil:

James 5:15

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.

And their faithful prayer shall be a means, ordinarily, to save that sick person from the danger of his disease, &c. and whereas his sins are the cause of his sickness, even those sins of his shall, upon humble and faithful prayers, be done away and forgiven.

James 5:16

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed.

In case of offence done, or in case of any weight which an unremoved sin lays upon the conscience, or in desire of advice concerning the avoidance of sin, do ye give ease to your souls, by a mutual confession of your faults; and pray one for another, that ye may be delivered from the guilt and punishment of your sin. V. 19, 20. Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins. Brethren, if any of you be seduced, either into error of belief or uncleanness of conversation, and one of you be a means to convert and reclaim him; Let him know, that he is very happy in this deed of his; for, in thus turning away the sinner from his evil way, whether of judgment, or practice, he shall save a soul from eternal death; and shall be a means, that the many sins of that convert shall, through his true repentance, be forgiven, and not imputed unto him.