Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 him being sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he should have wrought sins, it shall be remitted to him. 16 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. 17 Elias was a man having similar feelings with us, and in prayer he prayed for it not to rain: and it rained not upon the earth for three years and six months.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Genesis 20:17
And Abraham will pray to God; and God will heal Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants; and they will bring forth.
Psalm 34:15
The eyes of Jehovah upon the just, and his ears to their cries.
Numbers 11:2
And the people will cry to Moses and Moses will pray to Jehovah, and the fire will subside.
John 9:31
And we know that God hears not the sinful: but if any be godly, and do his will, this he hears.
Genesis 18:23-32
And Abraham will draw near, and will say, Wilt thou also destroy the just with the wicked
1 Kings 13:6
And the king will answer and say to the man of God, Supplicate the face of Jehovah thy God, and pray for me, and my hand shall be turned back to me And the man of God will supplicate the face of Jehovah, and the king's hand will turn back to him and be as in the beginning.
2 Kings 19:15-20
And Hezekiah will pray before Jehovah, and say, O Jehovah God of Israel, dwelling upon the cherubim; thou God himself alone to all the kingdoms of the earth; thou madest the heavens and the earth.
2 Kings 20:2-5
And he will turn his face to the wall and pray, saying,
Job 42:8
And now take to you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and bring up a burnt-offering for yourselves; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for his face I will accept, so as not to do with you for folly, for ye spake not to me the right as my servant Job.
Psalm 10:17-18
Thou heardest the desire of the poor, O Jehovah: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to attend.
Proverbs 15:29
Jehovah is far off from the unjust: and he will hear the prayer of the just
Matthew 3:6
And they were immersed in Jordan by him, acknowledging their sins.
Luke 11:11-13
And shall a son ask bread of any of you a father, will he give him a stone ? and if a fish, for a fish he will not give him a serpent.
Acts 19:18
And many of them having believed came, acknowledging and proclaiming their deeds.
Romans 3:10
As has been written, That there is no just one, not one:
1 John 3:22
And whatever we ask, we receive of him, for we keep his commands, and do things pleasing before him.
Genesis 19:29
And it shall be in God's destroying the cities of the circuit, and God will remember Abraham, and he will send forth Lot out of the midst of the overthrow in overthrowing the cities in which Lot dwelt in them.
Genesis 20:7
And now turn back to the man the woman; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and do thou live: and if thou turn her not back, know that dying, thou shalt die, thou and all which are to thee.
Genesis 32:28
And he will say, Thy name shall no more be said Jacob, but Israel, for thou wert a prince with God and with men, and thou shalt prevail.
Genesis 41:9-10
And the chief of the cup-bearers will speak to Pharaoh, saying, I, remembering my sin this day.
Exodus 9:28-29
Pray ye to Jehovah and much, from there being voices of God and hail; and I will send you forth, and ye shall not add to stand.
Exodus 9:33
And Moses will go forth from Pharaoh out of the city, and he will spread forth his hands to Jehovah, and the voices will cease; and the hail and the rain was not poured upon the earth.
Exodus 17:11
And it was as Moses will lift up his hand, Israel prevailed: and as he will put down his hand and Amalek prevailed.
Exodus 32:10-14
And thou be at rest to me, and my wrath shall kindle against them, and I will consume them: and I will make thee into a great nation.
Numbers 14:13-20
And Moses will say to Jehovah, And the Egyptians heard, for thou didst bring up with thy strength this people from the midst of them;
Numbers 21:7-9
And the people will come to Moses, and they will say, We sinned, for we spake against Jehovah and against thee; wilt thou pray to Jehovah and he will remove the serpent from us? And Moses will pray for the people.
Deuteronomy 9:18-20
And I shall fall down before Jehovah as at the first; forty days and forty nights I ate not bread and I drank not water on account of all your sins that ye sinned to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah to provoke him
Joshua 10:12
Then will Joshua speak to Jehovah in the day Jehovah will give the Amorite before the sons of Israel, and he will say before the eyes of Israel, Sun in Gibeon, be thou silent, and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
1 Samuel 12:18
And Samuel will call to Jehovah, and Jehovah will give voices and rain in that day: and all the people will be greatly afraid of Jehovah and Samuel.
2 Samuel 19:19
And he will say to the king, My lord will not reckon iniquity to me, and he will not remember what thy servant did perversely in the day which my lord the king came forth from Jerusalem, for the king to set to his heart
1 Kings 17:18-24
And she will say to Elijah, What to me and to thee, thou man of God? camest thou to me to bring to remembrance mine iniquity, and to kill my son?
2 Kings 4:33-35
And he will go in and shut the door after them two, and he will pray to Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 14:11-12
And Asa will call to Jehovah his God, and he will say, O Jehovah, nothing with thee to help between many to those of no power: help us, O Jehovah our God, for upon thee we relied, and in thy name we came against this multitude. O Jehovah, thou our God; man shall not detain with thee.
2 Chronicles 30:20
And Jehovah will hear to Hezekiah and he will heal the people.
2 Chronicles 32:20-22
And Hezekiah the king will pray, and Isaiah the prophet, son of Amos, for this, and they will cry to the heavens.
Psalm 145:18-19
Jehovah is near to all calling upon him, to all who shall call upon him in truth.
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the unjust an abomination of Jehovah: and the prayer of the upright his acceptance.
Proverbs 28:9
He turning away his ear from hearing the law, also his prayer is an abomination.
Jeremiah 15:1
And Jehovah will say to me, If Moses shall stand, and Samuel, before my face, my soul not to this people: casting from my face they shall go forth.
Jeremiah 29:12-13
And ye called me, and went and prayed to me, and I heard to you.
Jeremiah 33:3
Call to me and I will answer thee, and I will announce to thee great and mighty things which thou knewest them not
Daniel 2:18-23
And for seeking companions from before the God of the heavens concerning this secret: that Daniel and his companions shall not be destroyed with the rest of the wise of Babel.
Daniel 9:20-22
And I yet speaking and praying and confessing my sins, and the sins of my people Israel, and causing my supplication to fall before Jehovah my God for the holy mountain of my God;
Hosea 12:3-4
In the belly he circumvented his brother, and by his strength he was a leader with God.
Matthew 7:7-11
Ask, and it shall be given you. Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.
Matthew 18:15-17
And if thy brother sin against thee, retire, and refute him between thee and him alone; if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
Matthew 21:22
And all things, whatever ye ask in prayer, believing, shall ye receive.
Luke 7:3-4
And having heard of Jesus, he sent elders of the Jews to him, asking him, that having come, he would save his servant.
Luke 9:6
And having gone out, they went through the towns, proclaiming the good news, and healing every where.
Luke 18:1-8
And he spake to them a parable, that they must always pray, and not lose courage;
Acts 4:24-31
And they, having heard, lifted up the voice unanimously to God, and said, Sovereign, thou God having made heaven, and earth, and sea, and all things which in them:
Acts 10:38
Jesus from Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and power; who passed through doing good, and healing all oppressed by the devil; for God was with him.
Acts 12:5-11
Truly therefore was Peter kept in prison: and prayer was made continually by the church to God for him.
Romans 5:19
For as by one man's disobedience many were constituted sinful, so also by the obedience of one shall many be constituted just.
Colossians 1:9
For this also we, from the day which we heard, ceased not praying for you, and asking that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
1 Thessalonians 5:17
Pray continually.
1 Thessalonians 5:23
And the same God of peace consecrate you perfectly compete; and your whole spirit and soul and body be kept faultless to the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians 5:25
Brethren, pray for us.
Hebrews 11:4
By faith Abel brought near a greater sacrifice to God than Cain, by which he was testified of to be just, God testifying of his gifts; and by it he being dead yet speaks.
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, having an intimation of the divine will of things not yet seen, being circumspect, prepared an ark for the salvation of his house; by which he condemned the world, and by faith became an heir of justice.
Hebrews 12:13
And make straight wheel-ruts to your feet, lest the lame thing turned aside; and it should rather be healed.
Hebrews 13:18
Pray for us: for we have trusted that we have a good consciousness, in all things wishing to be well occupied.
1 Peter 2:24
Who himself bear up our sins in his body upon the wood, that we, removed from sins, should live to justice: by whose bloody mark ye were healed.