James 5:16

The Passion Translation

Confess and acknowledge how you have offended one another and then pray for one another to be instantly healed, for tremendous power is released through the passionate, heartfelt prayer of a godly believer!

Cross References

Proverbs 15:29

The Lord doesn’t respond to the wicked, but he’s moved to answer the prayers of the righteous.

Matthew 21:22

Everything you pray for with the fullness of faith you will receive!”

John 9:31

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but only to godly people who do his will.

Psalm 34:15

The Lord sees all we do; he watches over his friends day and night. His godly ones receive the answers they seek whenever they cry out to him.

1 Peter 2:24

He himself carried our sins in his body on the cross so that we would be dead to sin and live for righteousness. Our instant healing flowed from his wounding.

Jeremiah 33:3

cry out to me and I will answer you. I will reveal to you great things, guarded secrets that you never could have known.

1 John 3:22

And whatever we ask of him we receive, because we keep his commands. And by our beautiful intentions we continue to do what brings pleasure to him.

Proverbs 15:8

It is despicable to the Lord when people use the worship of the Almighty as a cloak for their sin, but every prayer of the righteous is pleasing to his heart.

Acts 19:18

Many believers publicly confessed their sins and disclosed their secrets.

1 Thessalonians 5:17

Make your life a prayer.

Genesis 20:17

Then Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abimelech! He also healed Abimelech’s wife and female servants of their infertility and they began to have babies again.

Proverbs 28:9

If you close your heart and refuse to listen to God’s instruction, even your prayer will be despised.

Hebrews 12:13

for as you keep walking forward on God’s paths all your stumbling ways will be divinely healed!

1 Thessalonians 5:25

Now, beloved ones, pray for us.

Matthew 3:6

And while they were publicly confessing their sins, he would immerse them in the Jordan River.

Hebrews 13:18

And keep praying for us that we continue to live with a clear conscience, for we desire to live honorably in all that we do.

Hebrews 11:7

Faith opened Noah’s heart to receive revelation and warnings from God about what was coming, even things that had never been seen. But he stepped out in reverent obedience to God and built an ark that would save him and his family. By his faith the world was condemned, but Noah received God’s gift of righteousness that comes by believing.

Romans 5:19

One man’s disobedience opened the door for all humanity to become sinners. So also one man’s obedience opened the door for many to be made perfectly right with God and acceptable to him.

Romans 3:10

And the Scriptures agree, for it is written: There is no one who always does what is right, no, not even one!

Joshua 10:12

Yahweh gave the men of Israel victory over the Amorites that day, the day when Joshua stood before the people and prayed to Yahweh: “Sun, stand still over Gibeon! Moon, stay where you are over the valley of Aijalon!”

Hebrews 11:4

Faith moved Abel to choose a more acceptable sacrifice to offer God than his brother Cain, and God declared him righteous because of his offering of faith. By his faith, Abel still speaks instruction to us today, even though he is long dead.

Acts 10:38

“Jesus of Nazareth was anointed by God with the Holy Spirit and with great power. He did wonderful things for others and divinely healed all who were under the tyranny of the devil, for God had anointed him.

Genesis 19:29

So before God destroyed the cities of the plain where Lot had settled, he remembered his affection for Abraham and spared Lot from all the destruction.

Jeremiah 15:1

Then Yahweh said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me to intercede for these people, I would not turn my heart back to them. Send them away from me and make them go.

Genesis 32:28

“Not anymore,” the man said to him. “Your new name is Israel, for you have struggled both with God and with people and have overcome.”

Genesis 20:7

Now return the man’s wife, and because he is a prophet, he will intercede on your behalf that you may live. But if you don’t give her back—you will certainly die, you and your entire household.”

1 Thessalonians 5:23

Now, may the God of peace and harmony set you apart, making you completely holy. And may your entire being—spirit, soul, and body—be kept completely flawless in the appearing of our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One.

Colossians 1:9

Since we first heard about you, we’ve kept you always in our prayers that you would receive the perfect knowledge of God’s pleasure over your lives, making you reservoirs of every kind of wisdom and spiritual understanding.

Luke 9:6

The apostles departed and went into the villages with the wonderful news of God’s kingdom, and they healed diseases wherever they went.

Jeremiah 42:2

me and said, “Please listen to our humble plea and pray to Yahweh your God for us and for all this remnant. We were once many, but as you see, only a few of us remain.

Mark 1:5

A steady stream of people came to be dipped in the Jordan River as they publicly confessed their sins. They came from all over southern Israel, including nearly all the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Acts 8:24

Simon begged, “Peter, please pray to God for me. Plead with him so that nothing you just said over me may come to pass!”