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 spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “I would make mention today of my own offenses.

So he said to the king, “Let not my lord consider me guilty, nor remember what your servant did wrong on the day when my lord the king came out from Jerusalem, so that the king would take it to heart.

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

“If your brother sins, go and show him his fault in private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother.

When he heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders asking Him to come and save the life of his slave.

Many also of those who had believed kept coming, confessing and disclosing their practices.

The effectual

Abraham came near and said, “Will You indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

Thus it came about, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

Now therefore, restore the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours.”

He said, “Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel; for you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed.”

Make supplication to the Lord, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail; and I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”

So it came about when Moses held his hand up, that Israel prevailed, and when he let his hand down, Amalek prevailed.

Now then let Me alone, that My anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them; and I will make of you a great nation.”

The people therefore cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to the Lord and the fire died out.

But Moses said to the Lord, “Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought up this people from their midst,

So the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and you; intercede with the Lord, that He may remove the serpents from us.” And Moses interceded for the people.

I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke Him to anger.

Then Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel,
“O sun, stand still at Gibeon,
And O moon in the valley of Aijalon.”

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

The king said to the man of God, “Please

entreat the Lord your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me.” So the man of God entreated the Lord, and the king’s hand was restored to him, and it became as it was before.

So she said to Elijah, “What do I have to do with you, O man of God? You have come to me to bring my iniquity to remembrance and to put my son to death!”

So he entered and shut the door behind them both and prayed to the Lord.

Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and said, “O Lord, the God of Israel, who are enthroned above the cherubim, You are the God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

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

Then Asa called to the Lord his God and said, “Lord, there is no one besides You to help in the battle between the powerful and those who have no strength; so help us, O Lord our God, for we trust in You, and in Your name have come against this multitude. O Lord, You are our God; let not man prevail against You.”

But King Hezekiah and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, prayed about this and cried out to heaven.

Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves, and My servant Job will pray for you. For I will accept him so that I may not do with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.”

O Lord, You have heard the desire of the humble;
You will strengthen their heart, You will incline Your ear

The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous
And His ears are open to their cry.

The Lord is near to all who call upon Him,
To all who 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 who turns away his ear from listening to the law,
Even his prayer is an abomination.

Then the Lord said to me, “Even though Moses and Samuel were to stand before Me, My heart would not be with this people; send them away from My presence and let them go!

Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

‘Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’

so that they might request compassion from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his friends would not be destroyed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

Now while 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 in behalf of the holy mountain of my God,

In the womb he took his brother by the heel,
And in his maturity he contended with God.

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

And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

Now suppose one of you fathers is asked by his son for a fish; he will not give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?

Now He was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart,

We know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He hears him.

And when they heard this, they lifted their voices to God with one accord and said, “O Lord, it is You who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them,

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

and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.

A righteous

as it is written,
“There is none righteous, not even one;

For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous.

By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained the testimony that he was righteous, God testifying about his gifts, and through faith, though he is dead, he still speaks.

General references

Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maids, so that they bore children.

Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to the Lord concerning the frogs which He had inflicted upon Pharaoh.

So it came about when Moses held his hand up, that Israel prevailed, and when he let his hand down, Amalek prevailed.

The Lord

changed His mind about this.

“It shall not be,” said the Lord.

And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”