Is any among you suffering? let him pray. Is any cheerful? let him sing praise.
Is any one of you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praises.
Doth any one suffer evil among you? let him pray; is any of good cheer? let him sing psalms;
Does any one among you suffer evil? let him pray. Is any happy? let him sing psalms.
James — Apostolic writings (New Testament).
1 Go to now. They are mistaken, as I think, who consider that James here exhorts the rich to repentance. It seems to me to be a simple denunciation of God's judgment, by which he meant to terrify them without giving them any hope of pardon; for all that he…