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James 5:18 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit. "
James 5:18
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16 Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.
18 He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.
19 Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,
20 let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
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James 5:1
"Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you."
James 5:2
"Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten."
James 5:3
"Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days."
James 5:4
"Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies."
James 5:5
"You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter."
James 5:6
"You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you."
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