James 5:16

English Standard Version 2016

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Cross References

Proverbs 15:29

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

Matthew 21:22

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

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.

Psalm 34:15

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

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.

Jeremiah 33:3

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

1 John 3:22

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

Proverbs 15:8

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

Acts 19:18

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

1 Thessalonians 5:17

pray without ceasing,

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.”

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.

Proverbs 28:9

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

2 Chronicles 30:20

And the Lord heard Hezekiah and healed the people.

Numbers 11:2

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

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.

1 Thessalonians 5:25

Brothers, pray for us.

Matthew 3:6

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

Hebrews 13:18

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

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.

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.

Romans 3:10

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

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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 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.”

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.

Exodus 17:11

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

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.

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.

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,

Luke 9:6

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

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 Samuel 12:17

Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call upon the Lord, that he may send thunder and rain. And you shall know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the Lord, in asking for yourselves a king.”

Jeremiah 42:2

and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Let our plea for mercy come before you, and pray to the Lord your God for us, for all this remnant—because we are left with but a few, as your eyes see us—

Mark 1:5

And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

Acts 8:24

And Simon answered, “Pray for me to the Lord, that nothing of what you have said may come upon me.”

1 Samuel 1:12

As she continued praying before the Lord, Eli observed her mouth.