James 5:20
consider this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover over a multitude of sins.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
19Brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring him back,
Cross References
Proverbs 10:2Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
Proverbs 11:4Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
John 5:24Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.
1 Corinthians 9:22To the weak I became like one who is weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.
Philemon 1:19I, Paul, write this with my own hand. I will repay it—not to mention that you owe me your very self.
James 5:19Brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring 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 →