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 spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:

And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember 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 were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.

Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.

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.

And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.

The effectual

And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

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 the which Lot dwelt.

Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.

And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

Intreat the LORD (for it is enough) that there be no more 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 wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.

And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched.

And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)

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

And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.

So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.

And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Intreat now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the man of God besought the LORD, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as it was before.

And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?

He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the LORD.

And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.

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

And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.

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

Therefore take unto you now 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 will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.

LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:

The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.

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

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

Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

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

He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:

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

And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.

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

And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;

Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.

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

Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.

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

A righteous

As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

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

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

General references

So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.

And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto the LORD because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh.

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

The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.

And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.