James 5:16

New American Standard Bible 2020

Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. A prayer of a righteous person, when it is brought about, can accomplish much.

Cross References

Genesis 19:29

So it came about, when God destroyed the cities of the surrounding area, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the destruction, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.

Genesis 20:17

Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his female slaves, so that they gave birth to children.

Genesis 20:7

Now then, return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her, know that you will certainly die, you and all who are yours.”

Genesis 32:28

Then he said, “Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel; for you have contended with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

2 Samuel 19:19

And he said to the king, “May my lord not consider me guilty, nor call to mind what your servant did wrong on the day when my lord the king went out from Jerusalem, so that the king would take it to heart.

1 Kings 13:6

And the king responded and said to the man of God, “Please appease the Lord your God and pray for me, so that my hand may be restored to me.” So the man of God appeased the Lord, and the king’s hand was restored to him, and it became as it was before.

2 Chronicles 30:20

So the Lord heard Hezekiah and healed the people.

Job 42:8

Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves, and My servant Job will pray for you. For I will accept him so as not to do with you as your foolishness deserves, because you have not spoken of Me what is trustworthy, as My servant Job has.”

Psalm 34:15

¶The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous, And His ears are toward their cry for help.

Exodus 17:11

So it came about, when Moses held his hand up, that Israel prevailed; but when he let his hand down, Amalek prevailed.

Exodus 9:33

So Moses left the city from his meeting with Pharaoh, and spread out his hands to the Lord; and the thunder and the hail stopped, and rain no longer poured on the earth.

Proverbs 15:29

The Lord is far from the wicked, But He hears the prayer of the righteous.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, But the prayer of the upright is His delight.

Proverbs 28:9

One who turns his ear away from listening to the Law, Even his prayer is an abomination.

Jeremiah 15:1

Then the Lord said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel were to stand before Me, My heart would not be with this people. Send them away from My presence and have them go!

Jeremiah 33:3

‘Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’

Jeremiah 42:2

and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our pleading come before you, and pray for us to the Lord your God for all this remnant—since we have been left only a few out of many, just as your own eyes now see us—

Numbers 11:2

The people then cried out to Moses; and Moses prayed to the Lord, and the fire died out.

Matthew 21:22

And whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive it all.”

Matthew 3:6

and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, as they confessed their sins.

Mark 1:5

And all the country of Judea was going out to him, and all the people of Jerusalem; and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.

Luke 9:6

And as they were leaving, they began going throughout the villages, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere.

John 9:31

We know that God does not listen to sinners; but if someone is God-fearing and does His will, He listens to him.

Acts 10:38

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

Acts 19:18

Also many of those who had believed kept coming, confessing and disclosing their practices.

Acts 8:24

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

Romans 3:10

as it is written: “There is no righteous person, not even one;

Romans 5:19

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

Colossians 1:9

For this reason we also, since the day we heard about it, have not ceased praying for you and asking 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

Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be kept complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5:25

Brothers and sisters, pray for us.

Hebrews 11:4

By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he was attested to be righteous, God testifying about his gifts, and through faith, though he is dead, he still speaks.

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

Hebrews 12:13

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

Hebrews 13:18

Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a good conscience, desiring to conduct ourselves honorably in all things.

Joshua 10:12

Then Joshua spoke to the Lord on the day when the Lord turned the Amorites over to the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still at Gibeon, And moon, at the Valley of Aijalon!”

1 Peter 2:24

and He Himself brought our sins in His body up on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live for righteousness; by His wounds you were healed.

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.

1 Samuel 1:12

Now it came about, as she continued praying before the Lord, that Eli was watching her mouth.

1 Samuel 12:17

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

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.