James 5:16

The Effective Prayer Of Faith

¹⁵ And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. ¹⁶ Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much. ¹⁷ Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.

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Prayer of a Righteous Man

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Genesis 20:17

Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children.

Psalm 34:15

The eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous and his ears toward their cry.

Numbers 11:2

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

John 9:31

We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.

Genesis 18:23-32

Then Abraham drew near and said, "Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

1 Kings 13:6

And the king said to the man of God, "Entreat now the favor of the LORD your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me." And the man of God entreated the LORD, and the king's hand was restored to him and became as it was before.

2 Kings 19:15-20

And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD and said: "O LORD, the God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.

2 Kings 20:2-5

Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, saying,

Job 42:8

Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has."

Psalm 10:17-18

O LORD, you hear the desire of the afflicted; you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear

Proverbs 15:29

The LORD is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

Matthew 3:6

and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

Luke 11:11-13

What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent;

Acts 19:18

Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices.

Romans 3:10

as it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one;

1 John 3:22

and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.

Genesis 19:29

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

Genesis 20:7

Now then, return the man's wife, for he is a prophet, so that he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours."

Genesis 32:28

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

Genesis 41:9-10

Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, "I remember my offenses today.

Exodus 9:28-29

Plead with the LORD, for there has been enough of God's thunder and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer."

Exodus 9:33

So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and stretched out his hands to the LORD, and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured upon the earth.

Exodus 17:11

Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed.

Exodus 32:10-14

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

Numbers 14:13-20

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

Numbers 21:7-9

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

Deuteronomy 9:18-20

Then I lay prostrate before the LORDas before, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin that you had committed, in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke him to anger.

Joshua 10:12

At that time Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD gave the Amorites over to the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, "Sun, stand still at Gibeon, and moon, in the Valley of Aijalon."

1 Samuel 12:18

So Samuel called upon the LORD, and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day, and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.

2 Samuel 19:19

and said to the king, "Let not my lord hold me guilty or remember how your servant did wrong on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. Do not let the king take it to heart.

1 Kings 17:18-24

And she said to Elijah, "What have you against me, O man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to remembrance and to cause the death of my son!"

2 Kings 4:33-35

So he went in and shut the door behind the two of them and prayed to the LORD.

2 Chronicles 14:11-12

And Asa cried to the LORD his God, "O LORD, there is none like you to help, between the mighty and the weak. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on you, and in your name we have come against this multitude. O LORD, you are our God; let not man prevail against you."

2 Chronicles 30:20

And the LORD heard Hezekiah and healed the people.

2 Chronicles 32:20-22

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

Psalm 145:18-19

The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him.

Proverbs 28:9

If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

Jeremiah 15:1

Then the LORD said to me, "Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!

Jeremiah 29:12-13

Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.

Jeremiah 33:3

Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

Daniel 2:18-23

and told them to seek mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his companions might not be destroyed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

Daniel 9:20-22

While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my plea before the LORD my God for the holy hill of my God,

Hosea 12:3-4

In the womb he took his brother by the heel, and in his manhood he strove with God.

Matthew 7:7-11

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

Matthew 18:15-17

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

Matthew 21:22

And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith."

Luke 7:3-4

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

Luke 9:6

And they departed and went through the villages, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere.

Luke 18:1-8

And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.

Acts 4:24-31

And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, "Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them,

Acts 10:38

how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

Acts 12:5-11

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

Romans 5:19

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

Colossians 1:9

And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

1 Thessalonians 5:17

pray without ceasing,

1 Thessalonians 5:23

Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5:25

Brothers, pray for us.

Hebrews 11:4

By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

Hebrews 12:13

and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.

Hebrews 13:18

Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience, desiring to act honorably in all things.

1 Peter 2:24

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.