5:19-20 What do we learn from this?
5:19-20 What do we learn from this?
We learn from this that backsliders - believers who err from the truth and fall into sin - can be restored to fellowship with God when they confess and repent of their sins (CP Hos 14:4; Mk 3:28-29; Lu 22:31-32; 1Jn 1:7, 9; 5:16).
Shall hide a multitude of sins in the context of Jas 5:20 (KJV), means that when a backslider has confessed and repented and is converted again to Christ, their sins are forgiven, or overlooked.
They are in effect covered by the sacrificial blood of Jesus (CP Psa 32:1; 85:2; 103:10-13; Ro 4:7).
The sinner referred to in Jas 5:20 is the "soul saved from death." It is not the one who converts him, as some in the church believe.
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