James 5:16

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

So always tell each other the wrong things you have done. Then pray for each other. Do this so that God can heal you. Anyone who lives the way God wants can pray, and great things will happen.

Cross References

Proverbs 15:29

The Lord is far away from the wicked, but he always hears the prayers of those who do what is right.

Matthew 21:22

If you believe, you will get anything you ask for in prayer.”

John 9:31

We all know that God does not listen to sinners, but he will listen to anyone who worships and obeys him.

Psalm 34:15

The Lord watches over those who do what is right, and he hears their prayers.

1 Peter 2:24

Christ carried our sins in his body on the cross. He did this so that we would stop living for sin and live for what is right. By his wounds you were healed.

Jeremiah 33:3

‘Judah, pray to me, and I will answer you. I will tell you important secrets. You have never heard these things before.’

1 John 3:22

And God gives us what we ask for. We receive it because we obey God’s commands and do what pleases him.

Proverbs 15:8

The Lord hates the offerings of the wicked, but he is happy to hear the prayers of those who live right.

Acts 19:18

Many of the believers began to confess, telling about all the evil things they had done.

1 Thessalonians 5:17

Never stop praying.

Job 42:8

So now, Eliphaz, get seven bulls and seven rams. Take them to my servant Job. Kill them and offer them as a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will answer his prayer. Then I will not give you the punishment you deserve. You should be punished, because you were very foolish. You did not say what is right about me, as my servant Job did.”

Genesis 20:17

The Lord made all the women in Abimelech’s family not able to have children. God did this because Abimelech had taken Sarah, Abraham’s wife. But Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his servant girls.

Proverbs 28:9

When people do not listen to God’s teachings, he does not listen to their prayers.

2 Chronicles 30:20

The Lord listened to King Hezekiah’s prayer and forgave the people.

Numbers 11:2

So the people cried to Moses for help. He prayed to the Lord and the fire stopped burning.

Hebrews 12:13

Live in the right way so that you will be saved and your weakness will not cause you to be lost.

1 Thessalonians 5:25

Brothers and sisters, please pray for us.

Matthew 3:6

They confessed the bad things they had done, and John baptized them in the Jordan.

Hebrews 13:18

Continue praying for us. We feel right about what we do, because we always try to do what is best.

Hebrews 11:7

Noah was warned by God about things that he could not yet see. But he had faith and respect for God, so he built a large boat to save his family. With his faith, Noah showed that the world was wrong. And he became one of those who are made right with God through faith.

Romans 5:19

One man disobeyed God and many became sinners. But in the same way, one man obeyed God and many will be made right.

Romans 3:10

As the Scriptures say, “There is no one doing what is right, not even one.

Joshua 10:12

On that day the Lord gave Israel the victory against the Amorites. Joshua stood before all the Israelites and said to the Lord: “Sun, stop over Gibeon. Moon, stand still over the Valley of Aijalon.”

Hebrews 11:4

Cain and Abel both offered sacrifices to God. But Abel offered a better sacrifice to God because he had faith. God said he was pleased with what Abel offered. And so God called him a good man because he had faith. Abel died, but through his faith he is still speaking.

Acts 10:38

You know about Jesus from Nazareth. God made him the Messiah by giving him the Holy Spirit and power. Jesus went everywhere doing good for people. He healed those who were ruled by the devil, showing that God was with him.

Genesis 19:29

God destroyed the cities in the valley, but he remembered what Abraham had said. So God sent Lot away from those cities before destroying them.

Jeremiah 15:1

The Lord said to me, “Jeremiah, even if Moses and Samuel were here to pray for the people of Judah, I would not feel sorry for them. Send the people of Judah away from me! Tell them to go!

1 Kings 13:6

Then King Jeroboam said to the man of God, “Please pray to the Lord your God for me. Ask him to heal my arm.” So the man of God prayed to the Lord, and the king’s arm was healed, as it was before.

Genesis 32:28

Then the man said, “Your name will not be Jacob. Your name will now be Israel. I give you this name because you have fought with God and with men, and you have won.”

Genesis 20:7

So give Abraham his wife again. He is a prophet. He will pray for you, and you will live. But if you don’t give Sarah back to him, I promise that you will die. And all your family will die with you.”

1 Samuel 12:18

So Samuel prayed to the Lord. That same day the Lord sent thunder and rain. And the people became very afraid of the Lord and Samuel.

Exodus 17:11

Any time Moses held his hands in the air, the men of Israel would start winning the fight. But when Moses put his hands down, the men of Israel began to lose the fight.

Exodus 9:33

Moses left Pharaoh and went outside the city. He lifted his hands in prayer to the Lord. And the thunder and hail stopped, and then even the rain stopped.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

We pray that God himself, the God of peace, will make you pure—belonging only to him. We pray that your whole self—spirit, soul, and body—will be kept safe and be blameless when our Lord Jesus Christ comes.

Colossians 1:9

Since the day we heard these things about you, we have continued praying for you. This is what we pray: that God will make you completely sure of what he wants by giving you all the wisdom and spiritual understanding you need;

Luke 9:6

So the apostles went out. They traveled through all the towns. They told the Good News and healed people everywhere.

2 Samuel 19:19

Shimei said to the king, “My lord, don’t think about the wrong things I did. My lord and king, don’t remember the bad things I did when you left Jerusalem.

1 Samuel 12:17

Now is the time of the wheat harvest. I will pray to the Lord and ask him to send thunder and rain. Then you will know you did a very bad thing against the Lord when you asked for a king.”

Jeremiah 42:2

They said to him, “Jeremiah, please listen to what we ask. Pray to the Lord your God for all those who are survivors from the family of Judah. Jeremiah, you can see that there are not many of us left. At one time there were many of us.

Mark 1:5

All the people from Judea, including everyone from Jerusalem, came out to John. They confessed the bad things they had done, and he baptized them in the Jordan River.

Acts 8:24

Simon answered, “Both of you pray to the Lord for me, so that what you have said will not happen to me.”

1 Samuel 1:12

Hannah prayed to the Lord a long time. Eli was watching her mouth while she was praying.