James 5:16

The Effective Prayer Of Faith

¹⁵ and the prayer of faith will restore the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, it will be forgiven him. ¹⁶ So confess your sins one to another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. For the fervent prayer of a righteous man is mighty in its working. ¹⁷ Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

Good Man

Pray for

Pray for One Another

Prayer of a Righteous Man

Righteous Man

Righteous One

Sin

John 9:31

"We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if any one is God-fearing and does his will, to such he listens.

Matthew 3:6

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

Luke 11:11-13

"What father is there among you who, if his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish will give him instead a serpent?

Acts 19:18

Many also of those who became believers used to come to confess and to declare their deeds.

Romans 3:10

As it is written. There is none righteous, no, not one;

1 John 3:22

and whatever we ask we are receiving from him, because we are keeping his commandments and doing those things that are pleasing in his sight.

Matthew 7:7-11

"Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.

Matthew 18:15-17

"If your brother sins against you, go and show him, between yourself and him alone. If he listens, you have won your brother.

Matthew 21:22

"and everything that you ask for in your prayers you shall have, if you believe."

Luke 7:3-4

So when the captain heard about Jesus, he sent elders of the Jews to ask him to come and save his slave.

Luke 9:6

So they went forth, and walked from village to village, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere.

Luke 18:1-8

He also taught them by a parable how they ought always to pray and never to lose heart.

Acts 4:24-31

And when they heard it they all lifted up their voices in prayer to God, saying. "O Sovereign Lord, who madest heaven and earth and sea, and all that in them is,

Acts 10:38

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

Acts 12:5-11

So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer to God was made by the church for him.

Romans 5:19

For just as through the disobedience of one man the rest were made sinners; even so by the obedience of One shall all the rest be made righteous.

Colossians 1:9

For this reason from the day I heard of it I have never ceased to pray for you, asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will with every kind of wisdom and spiritual insight;

1 Thessalonians 5:17

Pray without ceasing.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

May the God of peace consecrate you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be kept altogether faultless until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5:25

Brothers, pray for me.

Hebrews 11:4

By faith Abel offered to God a sacrifice more acceptable than that of Cain, through which he had witness borne to him that he was righteous, God giving the testimony by accepting his gifts; and through it he, although he is dead, still speaks.

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, warned of God of things not yet seen, reverently gave heed, and built an ark for the saving of his house; by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is of faith.

Hebrews 12:13

make straight path for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.

Hebrews 13:18

Keep on praying for me. I am persuaded that I have a clear conscience, and I desire in every way to live nobly.

1 Peter 2:24

He bore our sins in his own body upon the tree, in order that we might become dead to sins, and be alive unto righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.