James 5:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. ”

James 5:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Confess your faults one to another - This seems primarily to refer to those who were sick, since it is added, “that ye may be healed.” The fair interpretation is, that it might be supposed that s...
James 5:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(10) Confess [your] faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. (11) The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. (10) Because God pardons the sins of t...
James 5:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The key to this hard passage seems to lie in the climax, the example of Elijah, who in 1 Kings 17:1 ; 1 Kings 18:41 ff., is not said to have prayed for drought or for rain. His prayer is in the ph...
James 5:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

faults . App-128. but the texts read "sins", as above. pray . App-134. for . App-104. healed . Greek. iaomai. See Luke 6:17 . This makes it clear that the circumstances in view are those of...
James 5:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

16 Confess your faults one to another. In some copies the illative particle is given, nor is it unsuitable; for though when not expressed, it must be understood. He had said, that sins were r...
James 5:16 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 2377 THE EFFICACY OF FERVENT PRAYER James 5:16 . The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much . PRAYER and intercession are generally considered as duties: but, if...
James 5:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Confess your faults one to another - This is a go...
James 5:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Confess your faults, &c.— Confess therefore your faults, &c. See Mills, and Wetstein. They were to make a confession of those particular sins which had drawn some remarkable diseases upon...
James 5:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. 'Aleph (') A B, Vulgate, read 'Confess, THER...
James 5:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Rebuke and Encouragement 2. Are corrupted, etc.] prophetic tense, in which the future is spoken of as though it were already come to pass.
James 5:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Confess your faults one to another. — The meaning attributed to the words of this verse by many devout Catholics cannot be established either from the opinion of antiquity, or a critical examinatio...
James 5:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 28 THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CONFESSION OF SINS-LAWFULNESS OF PRAYERS FOR RAIN. James 5:16-18 THE connection Of this passage with the preceding one is very close. This is evident even in...
James 5:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Effectual Prayer James 5:12-20 In view of the judgment-seat, at which we shall have to give an account of our words, we shall do well to employ the simplest, plainest speech, Matthew 5:34 ; M...
James 5:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Approaching the conclusion of his letter, the writer addressed a terrible indictment and solemn warning to the rich. He showed the failure of possessions, and how they may become the curse of life....
James 5:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 a...
James 5:16 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

INTERCESSORY PRAYER ‘Pray one for another.’ James 5:16 Christianity brought with it a new phenomenon in the spiritual world, if such an expression be permitted, and that phenomenon was the s...
James 5:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Confess your faults one to another ,.... Which must be understood of sins committed against one another; which should be acknowledged, and repentance for them declared, in order to mutual forgivenes...
James 5:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Ver. 16. Confess your faults ] To any such go...
James 5:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Confess your faults Whether you are sick or in health; one to another He does not say to the elders; this may or may not be done, for it is nowhere commanded. We may confess them to any pious per...
James 5:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Verses 1 Timothy 6 are addressed to rich men, and no doubt specially to those who make some claim of having the knowledge of God. They are bidden to weep and howl for the miseries that will take th...
James 5:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Caution against Swearing; Profaneness Condemned; Confession and Prayer; Efficacy of Prayer. A. D. 61....
James 5:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Confess your faults; some copies have the illative particle, therefore, in the text, but even without that here seems to be a connexion between this and the former verse: he had said, the sick man'...
James 5:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Final Exhortation To Prayer And Faith ( James 5:12-18 ). Having faced up men and women to judgment in different ways James now ends as he began by putting great emphasis on the need for faith and...
James 5:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES James 5:14 . Call for. —Summon to him. Elders. —Officers usual in synagogues, and probably also found in the Jewish Christian congregations. Not priests, or even m...
James 5:16 - Scofield Reference Notes

faults Sin ( See Scofield) - ( Romans 3:23 ). righteous ( See Scofield) - ( Romans 10:10 ).
James 5:16 - Sermon Bible Commentary

James 5:13-16 The Visitation of the Sick. I. To understand the clause which refers to anointing with oil, it must be remembered that in those early and simple days, when little was known about th...
James 5:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

James 5:1 . Go to now, or go now, ye rich men. He had taught them humility, because their glory vanished away as the flower of the field: chap. James 1:10 . He now calls upon them to weep and...
James 5:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION James 5:1-59 DENUNCIATION OF THE RICH FOR (1) GRINDING DOWN THE POOR AND KEEPING BACK THEIR WAGES ; (2) LUXURY ; (3) MURDER . The whole...
James 5:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another that ye may be healed. The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
James 5:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 3:22 ; 1 Kings 13:6 ; 1 Kings 17:18-24 ; 1 Samuel 12:18 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:17 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:23 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:25 ; 2 Chronicles 14:11 ; 2 Chronicles 14:12 ; 2 Chronicles...
James 5:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Confess your faults — Whether ye are sick or in health. To one another — He does not say, to the elders: this may, or may not, be done; for it is nowhere commanded. We may confess them to any who c...

James 5:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

James 5:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

James 5:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

James 5:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

James 5:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

James 5:16 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

James 5:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

James 5:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

James 5:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

James 5:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

James 5:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

James 5:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

James 5:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

James 5:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

James 5:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James 5:16 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

James 5:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

James 5:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

James 5:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

James 5:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

James 5:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

James 5:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

James 5:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

James 5:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

James 5:16 - Scofield Reference Notes

James 5:16 - Sermon Bible Commentary

James 5:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

James 5:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

James 5:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

James 5:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

James 5:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes