Bible verse

James 5:20

consider this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and cover over a multitude of sins.

James 5:20 · BSB

James 5:20 in context

The verses around it, from James 5.

16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.

17 Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.

18 Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth yielded its crops.

19 My brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring him back,

20 consider this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and cover over a multitude of sins.

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James 5:20 in other translations

KJV

Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

ASV

let him know, that he who converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.

ERV

let him know, that he which converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.

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