James 5:16

New International Version

Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

Cross References

Proverbs 15:29

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

Matthew 21:22

If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”

John 9:31

We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the godly person who does his will.

Psalm 34:15

The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are attentive to their cry;

1 Peter 2:24

“He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”

Jeremiah 33:3

‘Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.’

1 John 3:22

and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him.

Proverbs 15:8

The Lord detests the sacrifice of the wicked, but the prayer of the upright pleases him.

Acts 19:18

Many of those who believed now came and openly confessed what they had done.

1 Thessalonians 5:17

pray continually,

Job 42:8

So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.”

Genesis 20:17

Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelek, his wife and his female slaves so they could have children again,

Proverbs 28:9

If anyone turns a deaf ear to my instruction, even their prayers are detestable.

2 Chronicles 30:20

And the Lord heard Hezekiah and healed the people.

Numbers 11:2

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

Hebrews 12:13

“Make level paths for your feet,” so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.

1 Thessalonians 5:25

Brothers and sisters, pray for us.

Matthew 3:6

Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.

Hebrews 13:18

Pray for us. We are sure that we have a clear conscience and desire to live honorably in every way.

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that is in keeping with faith.

Romans 5:19

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

Romans 3:10

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

Joshua 10:12

On the day the Lord gave the Amorites over to Israel, Joshua said to the Lord in the presence of Israel: “Sun, stand still over Gibeon, and you, moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”

Hebrews 11:4

By faith Abel brought God a better offering than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous, when God spoke well of his offerings. And by faith Abel still speaks, even though he is dead.

Acts 10:38

how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.

Genesis 19:29

So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.

Jeremiah 15:1

Then the Lord said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel were to stand before me, my heart would not go out to this people. Send them away from my presence! Let them go!

1 Kings 13:6

Then the king said to the man of God, “Intercede with the Lord your God and pray for me that my hand may be restored.” So the man of God interceded with the Lord, and the king’s hand was restored and became as it was before.

Genesis 32:28

Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”

Genesis 20:7

Now 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, you may be sure that you and all who belong to you will die.”

1 Samuel 12:18

Then Samuel called on the Lord, and that same day the Lord sent thunder and rain. So all the people stood in awe of the Lord and of Samuel.

Exodus 17:11

As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning.

Exodus 9:33

Then Moses left Pharaoh and went out of the city. He spread out his hands toward the Lord; the thunder and hail stopped, and the rain no longer poured down on the land.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Colossians 1:9

For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,

Luke 9:6

So they set out and went from village to village, proclaiming the good news and healing people everywhere.

2 Samuel 19:19

and said to him, “May my lord not hold me guilty. Do not remember how your servant did wrong on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. May the king put it out of his mind.

1 Samuel 12:17

Is it not wheat harvest now? I will call on the Lord to send thunder and rain. And you will realize what an evil thing you did in the eyes of the Lord when you asked for a king.”

Jeremiah 42:2

Jeremiah the prophet and said to him, “Please hear our petition and pray to the Lord your God for this entire remnant. For as you now see, though we were once many, now only a few are left.

Mark 1:5

The whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem went out to him. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.

Acts 8:24

Then Simon answered, “Pray to the Lord for me so that nothing you have said may happen to me.”

1 Samuel 1:12

As she kept on praying to the Lord, Eli observed her mouth.