James 5:16

The Effective Prayer Of Faith

¹⁵ and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up: and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. ¹⁶ Knowledge your faults one to another: and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man availeth much, if it be fervent. ¹⁷ Elijah was a man, mortal even as we are, and he prayed in his prayer, that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

Good Man

Pray for

Pray for One Another

Prayer of a Righteous Man

Righteous Man

Righteous One

Sin

Genesis 20:17

And so Abraham prayed unto God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidens, so that they bare.

Psalm 34:15

For the eyes of the LORD are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers.

Numbers 11:2

And the people cried unto Moses, and he made intercession unto the LORD; and the fire quenched.

John 9:31

For we be sure that God heareth not sinners: But if any man be a worshipper of God, and do what his will is, him heareth he.

Genesis 18:23-32

and drew near and said, "Wilt thou destroy the righteous with the wicked?

1 Kings 13:6

And the king answered and said unto the man of God, "Oh pray unto the LORD thy God and make intercession for me, that my hand may be restored me again." And the man of God besought the LORD, and his hand came to him again as well as before.

2 Kings 19:15-20

And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, "LORD God of Israel which dwellest between the Cherubs, thou art God alone over all the kingdoms of the earth, and thou hast made both heaven and earth.

2 Kings 20:2-5

And Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and besought the LORD, saying,

Job 42:8

Therefore take seven oxen and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, offer up also for yourselves a burnt offering: and let my servant Job pray for you. Him will I accept, and not deal with you after your foolishness: in that ye have not spoken the thing which is right, like as my servant Job hath done."

Psalm 10:17-18

LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the poor; thou preparest their heart, and thine ear hearkeneth thereto,

Proverbs 15:29

The LORD is far from the ungodly; but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.

Matthew 3:6

and were baptised of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.

Luke 11:11-13

If the son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father: will he give him a stone? Or if he ask fish, will he for a fish, give him a serpent?

Acts 19:18

And many that believed came, and confessed and showed their works.

Romans 3:10

as it is written, "There is none righteous, no not one:

1 John 3:22

and whatsoever we ask, that we shall receive of him: because we keep his commandments, and do those things which are pleasing in his sight.

Genesis 19:29

But yet when God destroyed the cities of the region, he thought upon Abraham: and sent Lot out from the danger of the overthrowing, when he overthrew the cities where Lot dwelled.

Genesis 20:7

Now, therefore, deliver the man his wife again, for he is a prophet. And let him pray for thee that thou mayest live. But and if thou deliver her not again, be sure that thou shalt die the death, with all that thou hast."

Genesis 32:28

And he said, "Thou shalt be called Jacob no more, but Israel. For thou hast wrestled with God and with men and hast prevailed."

Genesis 41:9-10

Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, "I do remember my fault this day.

Exodus 9:28-29

Pray ye unto the LORD, that the thunder of God and hail may cease, and I will let you go, and ye shall tarry no longer."

Exodus 9:33

And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and spread abroad his hands unto the LORD, and the thunder and hail ceased, neither rained it any more upon the earth.

Exodus 17:11

And when Moses held up his hand, Israel had the better. And when he let his hand down, Amalek had the better.

Exodus 32:10-14

and now therefore suffer me that my wrath may wax hot upon them, and that I may consume them: and then will I make of thee a mighty people."

Numbers 14:13-20

And Moses said unto the LORD, "Then the Egyptians shall hear it, for thou broughtest this people with thy might from among them.

Numbers 21:7-9

And the people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against thee: make intercession to the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us." And Moses made intercession for the people.

Deuteronomy 9:18-20

And I fell before the LORD, even as at the first time - forty days and nights, and neither ate bread nor drank water - over all your sins which ye had sinned in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD and in provoking him.

Joshua 10:12

Then spake Joshua unto the LORD, the day when the LORD delivered the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of all Israel, "Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou, Moon, in the valley of Aijalon."

1 Samuel 12:18

And when Samuel called unto the LORD, the LORD sent thunder and rain the same day. And all the people feared the LORD and Samuel exceedingly.

2 Samuel 19:19

and said unto him, "Let not my lord impute wickedness unto me, nor let him not remember the wickedness that thy servant did, when my lord the king departed out of Jerusalem that the king should take it to heart.

1 Kings 17:18-24

Then said she unto Elijah, "What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? Art thou come unto me, that my sin should be thought on and my son slain?"

2 Kings 4:33-35

And he went in and shut the door to the lad and him, and prayed unto the LORD.

2 Chronicles 14:11-12

And Asa cried unto the LORD his God and said, "LORD, it is all one with thee to help them that have no power, with few or with many: help us O LORD our God, for we trust to thee, and in thine name be come against this multitude. Thou art the LORD our God: let not man prevail against thee."

2 Chronicles 30:20

And the LORD heard Hezekiah and healed the people.

2 Chronicles 32:20-22

But Hezekiah the king and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz prayed concerning the thing and cried up to heaven.

Psalm 145:18-19

The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, yea, all such as call upon him faithfully.

Proverbs 15:8

The LORD abhorreth the sacrifice of the ungodly; but the prayer of the righteous is acceptable to him.

Proverbs 28:9

He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, his prayer shall be abhorred.

Jeremiah 15:1

Then spake the LORD unto me, and said, "Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet have I no heart to this people. Drive them away, that they may go out of my sight.

Jeremiah 29:12-13

Ye shall cry unto me, ye shall go and call upon me, and I shall hear you.

Jeremiah 33:3

Thou hast cried unto me, and I have heard thee: I have showed great and high things, which were unknown unto you."

Daniel 2:18-23

that they should beseech the God of heaven for grace in this secret, that Daniel and his fellows with others such as were wise in Babylon, perished not.

Daniel 9:20-22

As I was yet speaking at my prayers, knowledging mine own sins, and the sins of my people, making so mine intercession before the LORD my God, for the holy hill's sake of my God:

Hosea 12:3-4

He took his brother by the heel, when he was yet in his mother's womb: and in his strength he wrestled with God.

Matthew 7:7-11

"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

Matthew 18:15-17

"Moreover, if thy brother trespass against thee, Go and tell him his fault between him and thee alone. If he hear thee, thou hast won thy brother:

Matthew 21:22

And whatsoever thing ye shall ask in your prayers if ye believe, ye shall receive it."

Luke 7:3-4

And when he heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the elders of the Jews, beseeching him that he would come and heal his servant.

Luke 9:6

And they went out, and went through the towns, preaching the gospel, and healing everywhere.

Luke 18:1-8

He put forth a similitude unto them, signifying that men ought always to pray, and not to be weary,

Acts 4:24-31

And when they heard that, they lifted up their voices to God with one accord and said, "Lord, thou art God which hast made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is,

Acts 10:38

How God had anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the holy ghost, and with power; which Jesus went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devils, for God was with him.

Acts 12:5-11

Then was Peter kept in prison. But prayer was made without ceasing of the congregation unto God for him.

Romans 5:19

For as by one man's disobedience many became sinners: so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

Colossians 1:9

For this cause we also, since the day we heard of it have not ceased praying for you, and desiring that ye might be fulfilled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

1 Thessalonians 5:17

Pray continually.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

The very God of peace sanctify you throughout. And I pray God that your whole spirit, soul, and body, be kept faultless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5:25

Brethren, pray for us.

Hebrews 11:4

By faith, Abel offered unto God a more plenteous sacrifice than Cain: by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: by which also he being dead, yet speaketh.

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah honoured God, after that he was warned of things which were not seen, and prepared the ark to the saving of his household, through the which ark he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which cometh by faith.

Hebrews 12:13

and see that ye have straight steps unto your feet, lest any halting turn out of the way: yea, let it rather be healed.

Hebrews 13:18

Pray for us. We have confidence because we have a good conscience in all things, and desire to live honestly.

1 Peter 2:24

which his own self bare our sins in his body on the tree, that we should be delivered from sin and should live in righteousness. By whose stripes ye were healed.