James 5:17 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁷ Wherein you shall greatly rejoice, if now you must be for a little time made sorrowful in divers temptations:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ Elias 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Elijah was a human being with a nature such as we have [with feelings, affections, and a constitution like ours]; and he prayed earnestly for it not to rain, and no rain fell on the earth for three years and six months. [I Kings 17:1.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Elijah was a person just like us. When he earnestly prayed that it wouldn’t rain, no rain fell for three and a half years.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Elijah was a mortal man like us, and in prayer he prayed that it would not rain upon the earth. And it did not rain for three years and six months.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ Elias was a man passible like unto us: and with prayer he prayed that it might not rain upon the earth, and it rained not for three years and six months.

James 5:17 Cross References

1 Kings 17:1

And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening, and he drank of tile torrent.

1 Kings 18:1

And they divided the countries between them, that they might go round about them: Achab went one way, and Abdias another way by himself.

Luke 4:25

3 And in the synagogue there was a man who had an unclean devil, and he cried out with a loud voice,

Acts 10:26

4 And Peter opening his mouth, said: In very deed I perceive, that God is not a respecter of persons.

Acts 14:15

3 And when they had ordained to them priests in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, in whom they believed.

Romans 11:2

0 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see: and bow down their back always.

Revelation 11:6

5 And the seventh angel sounded the trumpet: and there were great voices in heaven, saying: The kingdom of this world is become our Lord's and his Christ's, and he shall reign for ever and ever. Amen.