James 5:20
let him know that he who turns a sinner back from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
In Context
19Brothers, if anyone among you wanders away from the truth, and anyone turns him back,
Cross References
John 5:24“Most assuredly I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has eternal life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
1 Corinthians 9:22to the weak I became as weak, in order that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
Philemon 1:19I, Paul, am writing with my own hand. I will repay—not to mention that you owe me even your own self!
James 5:19Brothers, if anyone among you wanders away from the truth, and anyone turns him back,
Matthew Henry on James 5:13-20
Caution against Swearing; Profaneness Condemned; Confession and Prayer; Efficacy of Prayer. ( a. d. 61.) 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. 13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. 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… Read the whole commentary →