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 remember my faults today.

He said to the king, "Don't let my lord impute iniquity to me, neither do you remember that which your servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.

They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

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

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

Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.

The effectual

Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?

It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle 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. If you don't restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours."

He said, "Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed."

Pray to Yahweh; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer."

It happened, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.

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

The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire abated.

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

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

I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.

Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, "Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!"

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

The king answered the man of God, "Now entreat the favor of Yahweh your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again." The man of God entreated Yahweh, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as it was before.

She said to Elijah, "What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!"

He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to Yahweh.

Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, "Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sit [above] the cherubim, you are the God, even 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 Yahweh, saying,

Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, "Yahweh, there is none besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God. Don't let man prevail against you."

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

Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls 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 I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has."

Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

Yahweh's eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

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

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

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

You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don't know.

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

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

In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his manhood he contended with God.

"Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."

"Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won't give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshipper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, "O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.

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 no one righteous; no, not one.

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

By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

General references

Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.

Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to Yahweh concerning the frogs which he had brought on Pharaoh.

It happened, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.

Yahweh relented concerning this. "It shall not be," says Yahweh.

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."