James 5:14
If any of you is sick, lead he in (some) priests of the church (or send he for some priests from the church), and pray they for him, and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord;
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
In Context
13And if any of you is sorrowful, [or (is) heavy], pray he with (a) patient soul, and say he a psalm.
Cross References
1 Kings 17:21He spread abroad himself, and was meted upon the child by three times; and he cried to the Lord, and said, My Lord God, I beseech, the soul of this child turn again into the entrails of him. (Then he stretched himself over, or above, the child three times; and he cried to the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, I beseech thee, let the soul of this child return to his entrails.)
2 Kings 5:11Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, I guessed, that he would have gone out to me, and that he would have stood, and inwardly have called (on) the name of the Lord his God, and that he should have touched with his hand the place of the leprosy, and should have cured me so. (And Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, I guessed, that he would have come out to me, and that he would have stood there, and inwardly called on the name of the Lord his God, and then he would have touched the place of the leprosy with his hand, and thus he would have cured me.)
Mark 16:18they shall do away serpents; and if they drink any venom, [or (any) deadly thing], it shall not annoy (or shall not harm) them. They shall set their hands on sick men, and they shall wax whole, (or They shall put their hands on the sick, and they shall grow whole, or they shall be healed).
Acts 14:23And when they had ordained priests to them by all cities, and had prayed with fastings, they betook them to the Lord (or they delivered them unto the Lord), in whom they believed.
Acts 28:8And it befell, that the father of Publius lay travailed with fevers and bloody flux (or dysentery). To whom Paul entered, and when he had prayed, and laid his hands on him, he healed him.
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 →