Parallel Verses
Anderson New Testament
Confess your faults one to another, and pray for one another, that you may be restored to health: the fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
New American Standard Bible
Therefore,
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The urgent request of a righteous person is very powerful in its effect.
International Standard Version
Therefore, make it your habit to confess your sins to one another and to pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
A Conservative Version
Confess ye the trespasses to each other, and pray for each other so that ye may be healed. A working supplication of a righteous man is very powerful.
American Standard Version
Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.
Amplified
Therefore, confess your sins to one another [your false steps, your offenses], and pray for one another, that you may be healed and restored. The heartfelt and persistent prayer of a righteous man (believer) can accomplish much [when put into action and made effective by God—it is dynamic and can have tremendous power].
An Understandable Version
So, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another to be healed [from sin sickness]. The special request of a righteous person is empowered with [great] effectiveness.
Bible in Basic English
So then, make a statement of your sins to one another, and say prayers for one another so that you may be made well. The prayer of a good man is full of power in its working.
Common New Testament
Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.
Daniel Mace New Testament
confess then to one another the offences you have committed, and pray for one another, that you may be healed; the fervent prayer of a virtuous man has great influence.
Darby Translation
Confess therefore your offences to one another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. The fervent supplication of the righteous man has much power.
Godbey New Testament
Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, in order that you may be healed: the inward working prayer of a righteous man avails much.
Goodspeed New Testament
So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be cured. An upright man can do a great deal by prayer when he tries.
John Wesley New Testament
Confess your faults one to another, brethren, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed: the fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
Julia Smith Translation
Acknowledge your faults to one another, and pray for one another, that ye might be healed. The prayer of the just, being energetic, is very powerful.
King James 2000
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous person accomplishes much.
Modern King James verseion
Confess faults to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous one avails much.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Knowledge your faults one to another: and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man availeth much, if it be fervent.
Moffatt New Testament
So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed; the prayers of the righteous have a powerful effect.
Montgomery New Testament
So confess your sins one to another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. For the fervent prayer of a righteous man is mighty in its working.
NET Bible
So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great effectiveness.
New Heart English Bible
Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of the righteous person is powerfully effective.
Noyes New Testament
Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
Sawyer New Testament
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be cured, for the prayer of the righteous operates with great power.
The Emphasized Bible
Be openly confessing, therefore, one to another, your sins, and be praying in each other's behalf, - that ye may be healed. Much availeth, the supplication of a righteous man, when it is energised:
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Confess your offences one to another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. The energetic prayer of a righteous man is mightily prevalent.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be cured. Great is the power of a good man's fervent prayer.
Webster
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of the righteous man availeth much.
Weymouth New Testament
Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be cured. The heartfelt supplication of a righteous man exerts a mighty influence.
Williams New Testament
So practice confessing your sins to one another, and praying for one another, that you may be cured. An upright man's prayer, when it keeps at work, is very powerful.
World English Bible
Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
Worrell New Testament
Confess, therefore, your sins one to another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. A righteous man's inwrought supplication avails much.
Worsley New Testament
Confess your faults one to another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed: the fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
Youngs Literal Translation
Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;
Themes
Confession » The reward for confessing sin
Confession » Confessing your sins
Confession of sin » Exhortation to
Importunity » Importunity, examples of » The early church
Missionaries » In interceding for others
Prayer » Importunity, examples of » The early church
Prayer » Conditions for successful » Righteousness
Prayer » Of the righteous » Advantages
Prayer » The prayer of a righteous man
Prayer, answers to » Received by those who » Are righteous
Intercessory prayer » Commanded
Intercessory prayer » Encouragement to
Privileges of saints » Interceding for others
Righteousness » They who walk in and follow » Are heard by God
Interlinear
Huper
Devotionals
Devotionals about James 5:16
Devotionals containing James 5:16
References
Easton
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 37 Translations in James 5:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Effective Prayer Of Faith
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick; and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. 16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray for one another, that you may be restored to health: the fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. 17 Elijah was a man with passions like our own; and he earnestly prayed that it might not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
John 9:31
We know that God hears not sinners; but if any one be a worshiper of God, and do his will, him he hears.
Matthew 3:6
and were immersed by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.
Luke 11:11-13
If a son ask bread of any one of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he, instead of a fish, give him a serpent?
Acts 19:18
And many of those who believed came and confessed, and made known their practices.
Romans 3:10
as it is written: There is none righteous, no, not one;
1 John 3:22
and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
Matthew 7:7-11
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.
Matthew 18:15-17
And if your brother sin against you, go and tell him of his fault between you and him alone; if he hear you, you have gained your brother.
Matthew 21:22
And all things that you ask for in prayer, believing, you shall receive.
Luke 7:3-4
But when he heard of Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, and besought him to come and save his servant.
Luke 9:6
And they departed, and went through every village, preaching the gospel, and per forming cures everywhere.
Luke 18:1-8
And he spoke a parable to them, that they ought always to pray, and not to become weary,
Acts 4:24-31
And when they heard it, they lifted up their voice with one consent to God, and said: Lord, thou art God, who didst make the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all things that are in them; who, by the mouth of David thy servant, didst say,
Acts 10:38
how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit, and with power; who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed by the devil; for God was with him.
Acts 12:5-11
Therefore, Peter was kept in prison; but fervent prayer to God was made for him by the church.
Romans 5:19
For as by the disobedience of the one man the many have been made sinners, so, also, by the obedience of the one, the many shall be made righteous.
Colossians 1:9
For this reason, we also, from the day in which we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to request that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
1 Thessalonians 5:17
pray without ceasing;
1 Thessalonians 5:23
Now the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians 5:25
Brethren, pray for us.
Hebrews 11:4
By faith Abel offered to God more sacrifice than Cain; on account of which he received testimony that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and by it he, though dead, yet speaks.
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, after being warned concerning things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the salvation of his house; by which faith he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
Hebrews 12:13
and make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned aside; but rather let it be restored to health.
Hebrews 13:18
Pray for us: for we trust that we have a good conscience, willing to live honor ably in all things.
1 Peter 2:24
He himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. By his stripes you were healed.