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 of the cupbearers spoke with Pharaoh, saying, "I remember my sins today.

and he said to the king, "May not my lord hold me guilty, and may you not remember how your servant did wrong on the day that my lord the king went out from Jerusalem, by taking it to heart!

and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River [as they] confessed their sins.

"Now if your brother sins against you, go correct him between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

So [when he] heard about Jesus, he sent Jewish elders to him, asking him that he would come [and] cure his slave.

And many of those who had believed came, confessing and disclosing their practices,

The effectual

And Abraham drew near [to Yahweh] and said, "Will you also sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

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

So now, return the wife of the man, for he [is] a prophet, so that he will pray for you and you will live. And {if you do not return her}, know that you will certainly die, and all that [are] yours."

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

Pray to Yahweh. The thunder of God and hail {are enough}, and I will release you, and {you will no longer have to stay}."

And when Moses raised his hand, Israel would prevail, but when he rested his hand, Amalek would prevail.

And now leave me [alone] so that {my anger may blaze} against them, and let me destroy them, and I will make you into a great nation."

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

And Moses said to Yahweh, "Then the Egyptians will hear that you brought up this people from their midst in your power,

The people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned because we have spoken against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh and let him remove the snakes from among us." So Moses prayed for the people.

And [then] I lay prostrate {before} Yahweh, as earlier, forty days and forty nights; I did not eat food and I did not drink water because of all your sins that you committed, by doing evil in the eyes of Yahweh [and so] provoking him.

Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh, on the day Yahweh gave the Amorites over to the {Israelites}, and he said in the sight of Israel, "Sun in Gibeon, stand still, and moon, in the valley of Aijalon."

So Samuel called out to Yahweh, and Yahweh brought thunder and rain that [same] day, so all the people feared Yahweh and Samuel greatly.

Then the king responded and said to the man of God, "Please entreat the favor of Yahweh your God, and pray for me that my hand may return to me." So the man of God entreated the face of Yahweh, and the hand of the king returned to him, as it was in the beginning.

She said to Elijah, "{What do you have against me}, O man of God, [that] you have come to me to make known my guilt and to cause my son to die?"

He went and closed the door behind the two of them and prayed to Yahweh.

Then Hezekiah prayed before the face of Yahweh and said, "O Yahweh, God of Israel who lives [above] the cherubim. You [are] God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the world; you have made the heavens and the earth.

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

Then Asa cried out to Yahweh his God. And he said, "O Yahweh, there is none with you to help between the great and the powerless. Help us, O Yahweh our God, for we rely upon you, and in your name we have come against this multitude. O Yahweh, you [are] our God! Let no man prevail against you!"

Then King Hezekiah and Isaiah the son of Amoz, the prophet, prayed concerning this. And they cried to the heavens.

{So then}, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will pray for you, for {I will certainly accept his prayer}, so that it will not be done with you [according to your] folly, for you have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job [has]."

[The] longing of [the] afflicted you have heard, O Yahweh. You will make their heart secure. You will {listen attentively}

The eyes of Yahweh [are] toward [the] righteous, and his ears toward their cry for help.

Yahweh [is] near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination of Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright [is] his delight.

He who turns his ear from listening to instruction, even his prayer [is] an abomination.

Then Yahweh said to me, "[Even] if Moses and Samuel stood {before me}, my heart [would] not [be] to this people. Send [them] away from my {sight}, and let them go out.

Then [when] you call me, and you come and pray to me, then I will listen to you.

'Call to me, and I will answer you, and I will tell you great [things] and inaccessible [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, along with the remainder of the wise men of Babylon, would not be killed.

Now I [was] still speaking and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my plea {before} Yahweh my God, on behalf {of the holy mountain of my God}.

In the womb he deceived his brother, and in his manhood he struggled with God.

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

And whatever you ask in prayer, [if you] believe, you will receive."

But what father from among you, [if his] son will ask for a fish, instead of a fish will give him a snake?

And he told them a parable to [show that] they must always pray and not be discouraged,

We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if someone is devout and does his will, he listens to this one.

And [when they] heard [it], they lifted [their] voices with one mind to God and said, "Master, you [are] the one who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things in them,

Thus Peter was kept in the prison, but prayer was fervently being made to God by the church for him.

and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do [what is] pleasing {in his sight}.

A righteous

just as it is written, "[There] is no one righteous, not even one;

For just as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one, the many will be made righteous.

By faith Abel offered to God a greater sacrifice than Cain, by which he was approved that he was righteous, [because] God approved [him] for his gifts, and through it he still speaks, [although he] is dead.

General references

And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his female servants so that they [could] bear children [again].

And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried out to Yahweh over the matter of the frogs that he had brought on Pharaoh.

And when Moses raised his hand, Israel would prevail, but when he rested his hand, Amalek would prevail.

Yahweh relented concerning this. "It will not be," said Yahweh.

And whatever you ask in prayer, [if you] believe, you will receive."