James 5:16

The Effective Prayer Of Faith

¹⁵ and the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and, if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him. ¹⁶ 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. ¹⁷ Elijah was a man of like nature with us; and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months;

Good Man

Pray for

Pray for One Another

Prayer of a Righteous Man

Righteous Man

Righteous One

Sin

John 9:31

We know that God heareth not sinners; but, if any one is a worshiper of God, and does His will, him He heareth.

Matthew 3:6

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

Luke 11:11-13

And of which of you that is a father shall his son ask bread, and he give him a stone? or a fish, and he, instead of a fish, give him a serpent?

Acts 19:18

Many also of those who had believed were coming, confessing, and declaring their practices.

Romans 3:10

as it has been written, "There is none righteous, no not one;

1 John 3:22

and whatsoever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments, and do the things that are pleasing before Him.

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 your brother sin against you, go show him his fault between you and him alone. If he hear you, you gained your brother;

Matthew 21:22

And all things whatsoever ye ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive."

Luke 7:3-4

And, having heard about Jesus, he sent to Him elders of the Jews, asking Him, that, having come, He would thoroughly save his servant.

Luke 9:6

And, going forth, they were passing through the several villages, proclaiming the good news, and healing everywhere.

Luke 18:1-8

And He spake a parable to them, to the end that they ought always to pray, and not to faint;

Acts 4:24-31

And they, having heard it, lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, "Lord, Thou Who didst make the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all things in them;

Acts 10:38

how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power; Who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed by the Devil; because God was with Him.

Acts 12:5-11

Peter, therefore, was kept in the prison; but prayer was being earnestly made by the assembly to God in his behalf.

Romans 5:19

For as, through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted sinners; so also through the obedience of the One, shall the many be constituted righteous.

Colossians 1:9

For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, cease not praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

1 Thessalonians 5:17

pray without ceasing.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

And the God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame 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 a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he received witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he, being dead, is still speaking.

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, being divinely instructed concerning things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark 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, that the lame be not turned out of the way, but rather be healed.

Hebrews 13:18

Pray for us; for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to deport ourselves honestly in all things.

1 Peter 2:24

Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by Whose bruise ye were healed.