if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him Better, as the verb is passive, if any of you be led astray. The "truth" here is obviously not the faith which was common to Jews and Christians, but specifically "the truth as it is in Jesus," the truth which the "brethren," who held the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ" (ch. James 2:1), had received as their inheritance. To convert one who had so strayed, in thought or will, in belief or act, was to bring him back to the truth.

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