Top Verses from James 5  

Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. (NIV)

Confess to one another therefore your faults (your slips, your false steps, your offenses, your sins) and pray [also] for one another, that you may be healed and restored [to a spiritual tone of mind and heart]. The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available [dynamic in its working]. (AMP)

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. (KJV)

Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. (NIV)

Is anyone among you sick? He should call in the church elders (the spiritual guides). And they should pray over him, anointing him with oil in the Lord's name. (AMP)

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 Lord: (KJV)

You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you. (NIV)

You have condemned and have murdered the righteous (innocent man), [while] he offers no resistance to you. (AMP)

Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you. (KJV)

Is anyone among you in trouble? Let them pray. Is anyone happy? Let them sing songs of praise. (NIV)

Is anyone among you afflicted (ill-treated, suffering evil)? He should pray. Is anyone glad at heart? He should sing praise [to God]. (AMP)

Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. (KJV)

Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord's coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains. (NIV)

So be patient, brethren, [as you wait] till the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits expectantly for the precious harvest from the land. [See how] he keeps up his patient [vigil] over it until it receives the early and late rains. (AMP)

Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. (KJV)

Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. (NIV)

COME NOW, you rich [people], weep aloud and lament over the miseries (the woes) that are surely coming upon you. (AMP)

Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. (KJV)

My brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring them back (NIV)

[My] brethren, if anyone among you strays from the Truth and falls into error and another [person] brings him back [to God] (AMP)

Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; (KJV)

Above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear – not by heaven or by earth or by anything else. All you need to say is a simple "Yes" or "No." Otherwise you will be condemned. (NIV)

But above all [things], my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath; but let your yes be [a simple] yes, and your no be [a simple] no, so that you may not sin and fall under condemnation. (AMP)

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. (KJV)

And the prayer offered in faith will make them well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven. (NIV)

And the prayer [that is] of faith will save him who is sick, and the Lord will restore him; and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. (AMP)

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. (KJV)

You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord's coming is near. (NIV)

So you also must be patient. Establish your hearts [strengthen and confirm them in the final certainty], for the coming of the Lord is very near. (AMP)

Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. (KJV)