James 5:16

Confess sins to one another and pray for one another, for the righteous person's prayer is powerful. Mutual confession and prayer bring healing within the community.

Cross-references · 40

• Jer 29:12–13Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
• Prov 15:29The LORD is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous.
• Matt 21:22If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”
• Ps 34:15The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry.
• John 9:31We know that God does not listen to sinners, but He does listen to the one who worships Him and does His will.
• Jer 33:3Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
• Ps 145:18–19The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.
• 1 Pet 2:24He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
• Matt 7:7–11Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
• 1 Jn 3:22and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight.
• Dan 9:20–22While I was speaking, praying, confessing my sin and that of my people Israel, and presenting my petition before the LORD my God concerning His holy mountain—
• Prov 15:8The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
• Acts 19:18Many who had believed now came forward, confessing and disclosing their deeds.
• Luke 11:11–13What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?
• Ps 10:17–18You have heard, O LORD, the desire of the humble; You will strengthen their hearts. You will incline Your ear,
• 1 Th 5:17Pray without ceasing.
• Gen 20:17Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants, so that they could again bear children—
• Job 42:8So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken accurately about Me, as My servant Job has.”
• Prov 28:9Whoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable.
• 2 Chr 30:20And the LORD heard Hezekiah and healed the people.
• Num 11:2And the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.
• Matt 3:6Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
• Heb 12:13Make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.
• Gen 18:23–32Abraham stepped forward and said, “Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
• 1 Th 5:25Brothers, pray for us as well.
• 2 Kgs 20:2–5Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, saying,
• Luke 18:1–8Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray at all times and not lose heart:
• Rom 3:10As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.
• Acts 12:5–11So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was fervently praying to God for him.
• 2 Kgs 4:33–35So he went in, closed the door behind the two of them, and prayed to the LORD.
• Heb 11:7By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
• Exod 9:28–29Pray to the LORD, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go; you do not need to stay any longer.”
• Acts 10:38how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.
• 1 Kgs 13:6Then the king responded to the man of God, “Intercede with the LORD your God and pray that my hand may be restored.” So the man of God interceded with the LORD, and the king’s hand was restored to him as it was before.
• 2 Chr 14:11–12Then Asa cried out to the LORD his God: “O LORD, there is no one besides You to help the powerless against the mighty. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on You, and in Your name we have come against this multitude. O LORD, You are our God. Do not let a mere mortal prevail against You.”
• Acts 4:24–31When the believers heard this, they lifted up their voices to God with one accord. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “You made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them.
• Heb 13:18Pray for us; we are convinced that we have a clear conscience and desire to live honorably in every way.
• Heb 11:4By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous when God gave approval to his gifts. And by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead.
• Gen 20:7Now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet; he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not restore her, be aware that you will surely die—you and all who belong to you.”
• Rom 5:19For 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.

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