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James 5:16

WEB

16Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

KJV

16Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

BSB

16Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.

FBV

16Admit the wrongs you've done to each other, and pray for one another so that you'll be healed. Earnest prayer from those who live right is very effective.

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Extra References

Jeremiah 29:12-13

12You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13You shall seek me and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.


Proverbs 15:29

29The LORD is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.


Matthew 21:22

22All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”


Psalms 34:15

15The LORD’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.


John 9:31

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.


Jeremiah 33:3

3Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’


Psalms 145:18-19

18The LORD is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. 19He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.


1 Peter 2:24

24He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.


Matthew 7:7-11

7“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. 8For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. 9Or who is there among you who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 10Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent? 11If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!


1 John 3:22

22so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.