James 5:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 5:19

Hebrews 11:4

General references

Matthew 21:22

Bible References

Confess

and got baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

If your brother sins [against you], go and reprove him, as between you and him alone. If he listens to you, then you have won your brother over;

so, when the captain heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, asking him to come and make his servant well.

Many believers would also come to confess and disclose their magic spells;

The effectual

Ask and the gift will be yours, seek and you will find, knock and the door will open to you;

All that ever you ask in prayer you shall have, if you believe."

What father among you, if asked by his son for a loaf, will hand him a stone? Or, if asked for a fish, will hand him a serpent instead of a fish?

He also told them a parable about the need of always praying and never losing heart.

God, we know, does not listen to sinners; he listens to anyone who is devout and who obeys his will.

and on hearing this the entire company raised their cry to God, "O Sovereign Lord, thou art he who made heaven, earth, and sea, and all that in them is,

So Peter was closely guarded in prison, while earnest prayer for him was offered to God by the church.

and we get from him whatever we ask, because we obey his commands and do what is pleasing in his sight.

A righteous

Just as one man's disobedience made all the rest sinners, so one man's obedience will make all the rest righteous.

It was by faith that Abel offered God a richer sacrifice than Cain did, and thus won from God the record of being 'just,' on the score of what he gave; he died, but by his faith he is speaking to us still.

General references

All that ever you ask in prayer you shall have, if you believe."