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Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.
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God in All of Life
Commentators agree that this verse provides a simple, powerful framework for the entire Christian life. Whether you are experiencing suffering or joy, your immediate response should be directed toward God. Instead of despairing in hardship or forgetting God in good times, James calls believers to make prayer and praise their default reactions to all of life's circumstances.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Is any among you afflicted? By sickness, bereavement, disappointment, persecutions, loss of health or property. The word used here refers …
Is any suffering? (κακοπαθε τισ; ). See verse 10 for κακοπαθια. The verb in N.T. occurs only here and in 2 Timothy 2:3…
19th Century
Anglican
We now pass on to advice of different kinds—to the heavy-laden or light-hearted, to the suffering and afflicted. Prayer is to be the refuge of one,…
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One circumstance that calls for prayer is the experience of being “in trouble” (GK 2802). When such an experience comes, Christians need patience. …
16th Century
Protestant
Is any among you afflicted? He means that there is no time when God does not invite us to Himself. For afflictions ought to stimulate us t…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Is any among you afflicted ? &c.] As the people of God generally are; they are commonly a poor, and an afflicted peo…
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The sin of swearing is condemned; but how many make light of common profane swearing! Such swearing expressly shows contempt for God's name and aut…
