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. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. ¹⁶ 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. ¹⁷ Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.

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Pray for One Another

Prayer of a Righteous Man

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Genesis 20:17

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

Psalm 34:15

The eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

Numbers 11:2

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

John 9:31

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

Genesis 18:23-32

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

1 Kings 13:6

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

2 Kings 19:15-20

Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, "The LORD, 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.

2 Kings 20:2-5

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

Job 42:8

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."

Psalm 10:17-18

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

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 Jordan river, confessing their sins.

Luke 11:11-13

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

Acts 19:18

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

Romans 3:10

As it is written, "There is no one 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.

Genesis 19:29

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.

Genesis 20:7

Now therefore, restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you do not restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours."

Genesis 32:28

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

Genesis 41:9-10

Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, "I remember my faults today.

Exodus 9:28-29

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

Exodus 9:33

Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands to the LORD; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth.

Exodus 17:11

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

Exodus 32:10-14

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."

Numbers 14:13-20

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

Numbers 21:7-9

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

Deuteronomy 9:18-20

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

Joshua 10:12

Then Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD 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."

1 Samuel 12:18

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.

2 Samuel 19:19

He said to the king, "Do not let my lord impute iniquity to me, nor 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.

1 Kings 17:18-24

And she said to Elijah, "What do we have in common, O man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son."

2 Kings 4:33-35

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

2 Chronicles 14:11-12

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

2 Chronicles 30:20

The LORD listened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.

2 Chronicles 32:20-22

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 those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Proverbs 15:8

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

Proverbs 28:9

He who 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 mind would not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

Jeremiah 29:12-13

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

Jeremiah 33:3

'Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and hidden things, which you do not know.'

Daniel 2:18-23

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

Daniel 9:20-22

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

Hosea 12:3-4

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

Matthew 7:7-11

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

Matthew 18:15-17

"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.

Matthew 21:22

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

Luke 7:3-4

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

Luke 9:6

They departed, and went throughout the villages, proclaiming the Good News, and healing everywhere.

Luke 18:1-8

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

Acts 4:24-31

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

Acts 10:38

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

Acts 12:5-11

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

Romans 5:19

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.

Colossians 1:9

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, do not cease praying and making requests for you, 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

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

1 Thessalonians 5:25

Brothers, pray for us also.

Hebrews 11:4

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.

Hebrews 11:7

By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

Hebrews 12:13

and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

Hebrews 13:18

Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

1 Peter 2:24

who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by his stripes you were healed.