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The Essence of the Letter


The Essence of the Letter


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The essence of James’s letter is a call to action (works) that allows truth to triumph over sin and error. This is the essence of everything he wrote. The individual under consideration (James 5:19, “anyone among you”) is a Christian who has strayed from the truth. By turning that one back to God, the ultimate discipline of death (1 Cor. 11:30; 1 John 5:16) would be avoided. The multitude of sins covered were those that had been committed and those that would never happen because of a person’s repentance. Through genuine repentance, forgiveness is appropriated and sins are hidden from the sight of God (cf. Ps. 32:1; 1 Pet. 4:8).


Hughes, Robert B., and J. Carl Laney. Tyndale Concise Bible Commentary. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2001. Print. The Tyndale Reference Library.
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