“Brothers, if anyone among you has strayed from the truth and someone turns him back, let him know that whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins. "someone turns him back, let him know." For it is necessary to serve the salvation of one's neighbor.…”
Oecumenius, 6th c. — Commentary on James
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19Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
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In context
17Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
18And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
— James 5:19 —
20Let 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.