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 29:12–13You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
• Prov 15:29Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
• Matt 21:22All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”
• Ps 34:15Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.
• John 9:31We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.
• Jer 33:3‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don’t know.’
• Ps 145:18–19Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
• 1 Pet 2:24who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
• Matt 7:7–11“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
• 1 Jn 3:22and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
• Dan 9:20–22While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God;
• Prov 15:8The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
• Acts 19:18Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.
• Luke 11:11–13“Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?
• Ps 10:17–18Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,
• 1 Th 5:17Pray without ceasing.
• Gen 20:17Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.
• Job 42:8Now therefore, take to yourselves 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 him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.”
• Prov 28:9He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
• 2 Chr 30:20Yahweh listened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
• Num 11:2The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire abated.
• Matt 3:6They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.
• Heb 12:13and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
• Gen 18:23–32Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
• 1 Th 5:25Brothers, pray for us.
• 2 Kgs 20:2–5Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to Yahweh, saying,
• Luke 18:1–8He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,
• Rom 3:10As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.
• Acts 12:5–11Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.
• 2 Kgs 4:33–35He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to Yahweh.
• Heb 11:7By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
• Exod 9:28–29Pray to Yahweh; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”
• Acts 10:38even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
• 1 Kgs 13:6The king answered the man of God, “Now intercede for the favor of Yahweh your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again.” The man of God interceded with Yahweh, and the king’s hand was restored to him again, and became as it was before.
• 2 Chr 14:11–12Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, there is no one besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God. Don’t let man prevail against you.”
• Acts 4:24–31When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, “O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;
• Heb 13:18Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.
• Heb 11:4By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.
• Gen 20:7Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours.”
• Rom 5:19For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

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