James 5:15
bAnd the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and cif he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
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.
καὶ ἡ εὐχὴ τῆς πίστεως σώσει τὸν κάμνοντα, καὶ ἐγερεῖ αὐτὸν ὁ Κύριος· κἂν ἁμαρτίας ᾖ πεποιηκώς, ἀφεθήσεται αὐτῷ.
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b:
Psalms 50:14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
Psalms 91:15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
Psalms 18:5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
Psalms 34:5 They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.
Psalms 116:8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
John 5:19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
John 9:2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
John 9:3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
1 Corinthians 11:30-11:32 30. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. 31. For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. 32. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
c:
Isaiah 33:24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
Matthew 9:2 And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.
1 John 5:14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
i.e. proceeding from faith; the cure is ascribed to prayer, the moral means, and standing ordinance, not to the anointing, which was but ceremonial and temporary; and to faith in prayer, to show that this remedy was effectual only when faith (requisite to the working of miracles) was active, viz. in a certain persuasion that the sick person should be healed.
restore to health, (if God see it fit, and the health of the body be good for the soul), Mar 10:52 Luk 7:50 18:42.
the elders pray, but the Lord raiseth up, being prayed to in faith.
the same as saving before, only the word seems to respect the sick man’s lying upon his bed, from which he riseth when he is healed, Mar 1:31.
if he have by his sins procured his sickness; or, those sins for which particularly God visits him with sickness; sin being often the cause of sickness, Mat 9:2 Joh 5:14 1Co 11:30, though not always, Joh 9:2.
God will take away the cause as well as the effect, heal the soul as well as the body, and prayer is the means of obtaining both.