James 5:16

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James 5:16

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Summary

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

Confess

The effectual

A righteous

Romans 3:10

Romans 5:19

Hebrews 11:4

General references

Matthew 21:22

Bible References

Confess

Then the chief butler spoke to Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day.

And he said to the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity to me, neither remember thou that which thy servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.

and they were immersed by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

But if thy brother should sin against thee, go and reprove him between thee and him alone. If he should hear thee, thou have gained thy brother.

And having heard about Jesus, he sent elders of the Jews to him who asked him that, having come, he would save his bondman.

And many of those who have believed came, confessing, and reporting their practices.

The effectual

And Abraham drew near, and said, Will thou consume righteous men with wicked men?

And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.

Now therefore restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shall live. And if thou do not restore her, know thou that thou shall surely die, thou, and all that are thine.

And he said, Thy name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel, for thou have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.

Entreat LORD, for there has been enough of [these] mighty thunderings and hail, and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.

And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed, and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.

Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may grow hot against them, and that I may consume them. And I will make of thee a great nation.

And the people cried to Moses. And Moses prayed to LORD, and the fire abated.

And Moses said to LORD, Then the Egyptians will hear it, for thou brought up this people in thy might from among them,

And the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, because we have spoken against LORD, and against thee. Pray to LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.

And I fell down before LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which ye sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of LORD, to provoke him to anger.

Then Joshua spoke to LORD in the day when LORD delivered up the Amorites before the sons of Israel. And he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou, Moon, in the valley of Aijalon.

So Samuel called to LORD, and LORD sent thunder and rain that day. And all the people greatly feared LORD and Samuel.

And the king answered and said to the man of God, Entreat now the favor of LORD thy God, and pray for me that my hand may be restored to me again. And the man of God entreated LORD, and the king's hand was restored to him again, an

And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? Thou have come to me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to kill my son!

He went in therefore, and shut the door upon the two of them, and prayed to LORD.

And Hezekiah prayed before LORD, and said, O LORD, the God of Israel, who sits [above] the cherubim, thou are the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. Thou have made heaven and earth.

Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to LORD, saying,

And Asa cried to LORD his God, and said, LORD, there is none besides thee to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, O LORD our God. For we rely on thee, and in thy name we come against this multitude. O LORD

And Hezekiah the king, and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried out to heaven.

Now therefore, take to you seven bullocks and seven rams. And go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt-offering. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for him I will accept, that I not deal with you after your fol

LORD, thou have heard the desire of the humble. Thou will prepare their heart, thou will cause thine ear to hear,

The eyes of LORD are toward the righteous, and his ears are [open] to their {prayer (LXX/NT)}.

LORD is near to all those who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to LORD, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

Then LORD said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

And ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray to me, and I will hearken to you.

Call to me, and I will answer thee, and will show thee great things, and difficult, which thou know not.

that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret, that Daniel and his companions should nor perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

And while I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God,

In the womb he took his brother by the heel, and in his manhood he had strength with God.

Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and ye will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you.

And all things, as many as ye may ask in prayer, believing, ye will receive.

And which father of you, if the son will ask a loaf, will give him a stone, or also if a fish, in place of a fish will give him a serpent?

And he also spoke a parable to them about it being necessary to always pray, and not to give up,

And we know that God does not listen to sinners, but if any man is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to this man.

And those who heard lifted up a voice to God with one accord, and said, Thou Master, the God who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all things in them.

Indeed therefore Peter was kept in the prison, but fervent prayer was being made by the church to God for him.

and whatever we may ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do things pleasing in his sight.

A righteous

as it is written, There is no righteous man, not even one.

For as through the one man's disobedience the many were led sinful, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be led righteous.

By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, because of which he was reported to be righteous, God testifying about his gifts, and through it, he who died still speaks.

General references

And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants. And they bore sons.

And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh. And Moses cried to LORD concerning the frogs which he had brought upon Pharaoh.

And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed, and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.

LORD relented concerning this. It shall not be, says LORD.

And all things, as many as ye may ask in prayer, believing, ye will receive.