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 cupbearer said to Pharaoh, "I remember my offenses today.

and said to the king, "Let not my lord hold me guilty or remember how your servant did wrong on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. Do not let the king take it to heart.

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

"If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and heal his servant.

Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices.

The effectual

Then Abraham drew near and said, "Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.

Now then, return the man's wife, for he is a prophet, so that he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours."

Then he said, "Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed."

Plead with the LORD, for there has been enough of God's thunder and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer."

Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed.

Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you."

Then the people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.

But Moses said to the LORD, "Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for you brought up this people in your might from among them,

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

Then I lay prostrate before the LORDas before, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin that you had committed, in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke him to anger.

At that time Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD gave the Amorites over to the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, "Sun, stand still at Gibeon, and moon, in the Valley of Aijalon."

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

And the king said to the man of God, "Entreat now the favor of the LORD your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me." And the man of God entreated the LORD, and the king's hand was restored to him and became as it was before.

And she said to Elijah, "What have you against me, O man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to remembrance and to cause the death of my son!"

So he went in and shut the door behind the two of them and prayed to the LORD.

And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD and said: "O LORD, the God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.

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

And Asa cried to the LORD his God, "O LORD, there is none like you to help, between the mighty and the weak. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on you, and in your name we have come against this multitude. O LORD, you are our God; let not man prevail against you."

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

Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has."

O LORD, you hear the desire of the afflicted; you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear

The eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous and his ears toward their cry.

The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him.

If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

Then the LORD said to me, "Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!

Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.

Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

and told them to seek mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his companions might not be destroyed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my plea before the LORD my God for the holy hill of my God,

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

"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith."

What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent;

And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.

We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.

And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, "Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them,

So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.

and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.

A righteous

as it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one;

For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous.

By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.

General references

Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children.

So Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to the LORD about the frogs, as he had agreed with Pharaoh.

Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed.

The LORD relented concerning this: "It shall not be," said the LORD.

And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith."