James 5:16

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power in its effects.

Cross References

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 dwelt.

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.

Genesis 20:7

Now then restore the man's wife; for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you, and all that are yours.”

Genesis 32:28

Then he said, “Your name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

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; let not the king bear it in mind.

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.

2 Chronicles 30:20

And the Lord heard Hezekiah, and healed the people.

Job 42:8

Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; 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.”

Psalm 34:15

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

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.

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

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

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!

Jeremiah 33:3

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

Jeremiah 42:2

and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Let our supplication come before you, and pray to the Lord your God for us, for all this remnant (for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes see us),

Numbers 11:2

Then the people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to the Lord, and the fire abated.

Matthew 21:22

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

Matthew 3:6

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

Mark 1:5

And there went out to him all the country of Judea, and all the people of Jerusalem; and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

Luke 9:6

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

John 9:31

We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if any one is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.

Acts 10:38

how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how he went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

Acts 19:18

Many also of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices.

Acts 8:24

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

Romans 3:10

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

Romans 5:19

For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by one man's obedience many will be made righteous.

Colossians 1:9

And so, from the day we heard of it, 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,

1 Thessalonians 5:17

pray constantly,

1 Thessalonians 5:23

May the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5:25

Brethren, pray for us.

Hebrews 11:4

By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he received approval as righteous, God bearing witness by accepting his gifts; he died, but through his faith he is still speaking.

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, took heed and constructed an ark for the saving of his household; by this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness which comes by faith.

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.

Hebrews 13:18

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

Joshua 10:12

Then spoke Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord gave the Amorites over to the men of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand thou still at Gibeon, and thou Moon in the valley of Aijalon.”

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.

1 John 3:22

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

1 Samuel 1:12

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

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.”

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.