James 5:13
Good News Translation
Are any among you in trouble? They should pray. Are any among you happy? They should sing praises.

New Revised Standard Version
Are any among you suffering? They should pray. Are any cheerful? They should sing songs of praise.

Contemporary English Version
If you are having trouble, you should pray. And if you are feeling good, you should sing praises.

New American Bible
Is anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone in good spirits? He should sing praise.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Is any of you sad? Let him pray: Is he cheerful in mind? Let him sing.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Is any of you sad? Let him pray: Is he cheerful in mind? Let him sing.

any among.

2 Chronicles 33:12,13 And after that he was in distress he prayed to the Lord his God: and did penance exceedingly before the God of his fathers. . . .

Job 33:26 He shall pray to God, and he will be gracious to him: and he shall see his face with joy, and he will render to man his justice.

Psalm 18:6 In my affliction I called upon the Lord, and I cried to my God: And he heard my voice from his holy temple: and my cry before him came into his ears.

Psalm 50:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

Psalm 91:15 He shall cry to me, and I will hear him: I am with him in tribulation, I will deliver him, and I will glorify him.

Psalm 116:3-5 The sorrows of death have compassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow: . . .

Psalm 118:5 In my trouble I called upon the Lord: and the Lord heard me, and enlarged me.

Psalm 142:1-3 Of understanding for David, A prayer when he was in the cave. [2] I cried to the Lord with my voice: with my voice I made supplication to the Lord. . . .

Lamentations 3:55,56 Coph. I have called upon thy name, O Lord, from the lowest pit. . . .

Hosea 6:1 In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and let us return to the Lord.

Jonah 2:2,7 And Jonah prayed to the Lord, his God, out of the belly of the fish. . . .

Luke 22:44 And his sweat became as drops of blood, trickling down upon the ground.

Luke 23:42 And he said to Jesus: Lord, remember me when thou shalt come into thy kingdom.

Acts 16:24,25 Who having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison and made their feet fast in the stocks. . . .

2 Corinthians 12:7-10 And lest the greatness of the revelations should exalt me, there was given me a sting of my flesh, an angel of Satan, to buffet me. . . .

Hebrews 5:7 Who in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears, offering up prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, was heard for his reverence.

any merry.

Judges 16:23-25 And the princes of the Philistines assembled together, to offer great sacrifices to Dagon their god, and to make merry, saying: Our god hath delivered our enemy Samson into our hands. . . .

Daniel 5:4 They drank wine, and praised their gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, and of wood, and of stone.

let him sing.

1 Chronicles 16:9 Sing to him, yea, sing praises to him: and relate all his wondrous works.

Psalm 95:2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and make a joyful noise to him with psalms.

Psalm 105:2 Sing to him, yea sing praises to him: relate all his wondrous works.

Micah 4:5 And every man shall sit under his vine, and under his fig tree, and there shall be none to make them afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken.

Matthew 26:30 And a hymn being said, they went out unto mount Olivet.

1 Corinthians 14:26 How is it then, brethren? When you come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a revelation, hath a tongue, hath an interpretation: let all things be done to edification.

Ephesians 5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual canticles, singing and making melody in your hearts to the Lord:

Colossians 3:16,17 Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly: in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual canticles, singing in grace in your hearts to God. . . .

Revelation 5:9-14 And they sung a new canticle, saying: Thou art worthy, O Lord, to take the book and to open the seals thereof: because thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God, in thy blood, out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation: . . .

Revelation 7:10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying: Salvation to our God, who sitteth upon the throne and to the Lamb.

Revelation 14:3 And they sung as it were a new canticle, before the throne and before the four living creatures and the ancients: and no man could say the canticle, but those hundred forty-four thousand who were purchased from the earth.

Revelation 19:1-6 After these things, I heard as it were the voice of much people in heaven, saying: Alleluia. Salvation and glory and power is to our God. . . .

Context
The Prayer of Faith
12But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath. But let your speech be: Yea, Yea: No, No: that you fall not under judgment. 13Is any of you sad? Let him pray: Is he cheerful in mind? Let him sing. 14Is any man sick among you? Let him bring in the priests of the church and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.…
Cross References
Psalm 50:15
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

Psalm 95:2
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and make a joyful noise to him with psalms.

Isaiah 65:14
Behold my servants shall rejoice, and you shall be confounded: behold my servants shall praise for joyfulness of heart, and you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for grief of spirit.

1 Corinthians 14:15
What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, I will pray also with the understanding, I will sing with the spirit, I will sing also with the understanding.

Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly: in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual canticles, singing in grace in your hearts to God.

James 5:10
Take, my brethren, for example of suffering evil, of labour and patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

James 5:12
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