James 5:16 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁶ Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, so that you are healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous one accomplishes much.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Confess to one another therefore your faults (your slips, your false steps, your offenses, your sins) and pray [also] for one another, that you may be healed and restored [to a spiritual tone of mind and heart]. The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available [dynamic in its working].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ 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.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ For this reason, confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of the righteous person is powerful in what it can achieve.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be saved. For the unremitting prayer of a just person prevails over many things.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ Confess therefore your sins one to another: and pray one for another, that you may be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man availeth much.

James 5:16 Cross References

Genesis 19:29

Thus it came to be, when Elohim destroyed the cities of the plain, that Elohim remembered Aḇraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt.

Genesis 20:17

And Aḇraham prayed to Elohim, and Elohim healed Aḇimeleḵ, and his wife, and his female servants, so they bore children,

Genesis 20:7

And now, return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and let him pray for you and you live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall certainly die, you and all that are yours.

Genesis 32:28

And He said, “Your name is no longer called Ya‛aqoḇ, but Yisra’ĕl, because you have striven with Elohim and with men, and have overcome.”

2 Samuel 19:19

and said to the sovereign, “Do not let my master reckon crookedness to me, neither remember what wrong your servant did on the day that my master the sovereign left Yerushalayim, that the sovereign should take it to heart.

1 Kings 13:6

And the sovereign answered and said to the man of Elohim, “Please appease the face of יהוה your Elohim, and pray for me, that my hand might be restored to me.” And the man of Elohim appeased the face of יהוה, and the sovereign’s hand was restored to him, and became as it was before.

2 Chronicles 30:20

And יהוה listened to Ḥizqiyahu and healed the people.

Job 42:8

And now, take seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Iyoḇ, and offer up an ascending offering for yourselves. And let My servant Iyoḇ pray for you – for I accept him – lest I punish you; because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as did My servant Iyoḇ.”

Psalm 34:15

Ayin The eyes of יהוה are on the righteous, And His ears unto their cry.

Exodus 17:11

And it came to be, when Mosheh held up his hand, that Yisra’ĕl prevailed. And when he let down his hand, Amalĕq prevailed.

Exodus 9:33

And Mosheh went out of the city from Pharaoh and spread out his hands to יהוה, and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth.

Proverbs 15:29

יהוה is far from the wrong ones, But He hears the prayer of the righteous.

Proverbs 15:8

The slaughtering of the wrong ones Is an abomination to יהוה, But the prayer of the straight is His delight.

Proverbs 28:9

He who turns away his ear from hearing the Torah, Even his prayer is an abomination.

Jeremiah 15:1

And יהוה said to me, “Even if Mosheh and Shemu’ĕl were to stand before Me, My being is not toward this people. Send them away from My presence, let them go.

Jeremiah 33:3

Call unto Me, and I shall answer you, and show you great and inaccessible matters, which you have not known.’

Jeremiah 42:2

and said to Yirmeyahu the prophet, “We beg you, let our petition be acceptable to you, and pray for us to יהוה your Elohim, for all this remnant, for we are few left of many, as your eyes see us.

Numbers 11:2

And the people cried out to Mosheh, and Mosheh prayed to יהוה, and the fire died down.

Matthew 21:22

And whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive.

Matthew 3:6

and they were immersed by him in the Yardĕn, confessing their sins.

Mark 1:5

And all the country of Yehuḏah, and those of Yerushalayim, went out to him and were all immersed by him in the Yardĕn River, confessing their sins.

Luke 9:6

And going out they went through the villages, bringing the Good News and healing everywhere.

John 9:31

And we know that Elohim does not hear sinners. But if anyone fears Elohim and does His desire, He hears him.

Acts 10:38

how Elohim did anoint יהושע of Natsareth with the Set-apart Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for Elohim was with Him.

Acts 19:18

And many who had believed came confessing and declaring their deeds.

Acts 8:24

But Shim‛on answering, said, “Plead with the Master for me, so that none of what you had said shall come upon me.”

Romans 3:10

As it has been written, “There is none righteous, no, not one!

Romans 5:19

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

Colossians 1:9

That is also why we, from the day we heard, have not ceased praying for you, and asking that you be filled with the knowledge of His desire in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

1 Thessalonians 5:17

pray without ceasing,

1 Thessalonians 5:23

And the Elohim of peace Himself set you completely apart, and your entire spirit, and being, and body - be preserved blameless at the coming of our Master יהושע Messiah!

1 Thessalonians 5:25

Brothers, pray for us.

Hebrews 11:4

By belief, Heḇel offered to Elohim a greater slaughter offering than Qayin, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, Elohim witnessing of his gifts. And through it, having died, he still speaks.

Hebrews 11:7

By belief, Noaḥ, having been warned of what was yet unseen, having feared, prepared an ark to save his house, through which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to belief.

Hebrews 12:13

and make straight paths for your feet, lest the lame be turned aside, but instead, to be healed.

Hebrews 13:18

Pray for us, for we trust that we have a good conscience, desiring to behave well in every way.

Joshua 10:12

Then Yehoshua spoke to יהוה in the day when יהוה gave the Amorites over to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and he said before the eyes of Yisra’ĕl, “Sun, stand still over Giḇ‛on; and moon, in the Valley of Ayalon.”

1 Peter 2:24

who Himself bore our sins in His body on the timber, so that we, having died to sins, might live unto righteousness – by whose stripes you were healed.

1 John 3:22

And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we guard His commands and do what is pleasing in His sight.

1 Samuel 1:12

And it came to be, as she kept on praying before יהוה, that Ěli was watching her mouth.

1 Samuel 12:17

“Is today not the wheat harvest? Let me call to יהוה, so that He sends thunder and rain – know then and see that your evil is great, which you have done in the eyes of יהוה, in asking for yourselves a sovereign.”

1 Samuel 12:18

And Shemu’ĕl called to יהוה, and יהוה sent thunder and rain that day. And all the people greatly feared יהוה and Shemu’ĕl.