James 5:16 Cross References

James 5:16

16: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and wonderful results.

Jeremiah 29:12

  1. In those days when you pray, I will listen.
  2. If you look for me in earnest, you will find me when you seek me.

Matthew 21:22

  1. If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer."

Proverbs 15:29

  1. The LORD is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayers of the righteous.

John 9:31

  1. Well, God doesn't listen to sinners, but he is ready to hear those who worship him and do his will.

1 Peter 2:24

  1. He personally carried away our sins in his own body on the cross so we can be dead to sin and live for what is right. You have been healed by his wounds!

Psalms 34:15

  1. The eyes of the LORD watch over those who do right; his ears are open to their cries for help.

Jeremiah 33:3

  1. Ask me and I will tell you some remarkable secrets about what is going to happen here.

Matthew 7:7

  1. "Keep on asking, and you will be given what you ask for. Keep on looking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened.
  2. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And the door is opened to everyone who knocks.
  3. You parents--if your children ask for a loaf of bread, do you give them a stone instead?
  4. Or if they ask for a fish, do you give them a snake? Of course not!
  5. If you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him.

1 John 3:22

  1. And we will receive whatever we request because we obey him and do the things that please him.

Daniel 9:20

  1. I went on praying and confessing my sin and the sins of my people, pleading with the LORD my God for Jerusalem, his holy mountain.
  2. As I was praying, Gabriel, whom I had seen in the earlier vision, came swiftly to me at the time of the evening sacrifice.
  3. He explained to me, "Daniel, I have come here to give you insight and understanding.

Psalms 145:18

  1. The LORD is close to all who call on him, yes, to all who call on him sincerely.
  2. He fulfills the desires of those who fear him; he hears their cries for help and rescues them.

Acts 19:18

  1. Many who became believers confessed their sinful practices.

Luke 11:11

  1. "You fathers--if your children ask for a fish, do you give them a snake instead?
  2. Or if they ask for an egg, do you give them a scorpion? Of course not!
  3. If you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him."

Proverbs 15:8

  1. The LORD hates the sacrifice of the wicked, but he delights in the prayers of the upright.

Psalms 10:17

  1. LORD, you know the hopes of the helpless. Surely you will listen to their cries and comfort them.
  2. You will bring justice to the orphans and the oppressed, so people can no longer terrify them.

1 Thessalonians 5:17

  1. Keep on praying.

Genesis 20:17

  1. Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and the other women of the household, so they could have children.

Job 42:8

  1. Now take seven young bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer on your behalf. I will not treat you as you deserve, for you have not been right in what you said about me, as my servant Job was."

Numbers 11:2

  1. The people screamed to Moses for help; and when he prayed to the LORD, the fire stopped.

Hebrews 12:13

  1. Mark out a straight path for your feet. Then those who follow you, though they are weak and lame, will not stumble and fall but will become strong.

Proverbs 28:9

  1. The prayers of a person who ignores the law are despised.

Matthew 3:6

  1. And when they confessed their sins, he baptized them in the Jordan River.

2 Kings 20:2

  1. When Hezekiah heard this, he turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,
  2. "Remember, O LORD, how I have always tried to be faithful to you and do what is pleasing in your sight." Then he broke down and wept bitterly.
  3. But before Isaiah had left the middle courtyard, this message came to him from the LORD:
  4. "Go back to Hezekiah, the leader of my people. Tell him, `This is what the LORD, the God of your ancestor David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears. I will heal you, and three days from now you will get out of bed and go to the Temple of the LORD.

Luke 18:1

  1. One day Jesus told his disciples a story to illustrate their need for constant prayer and to show them that they must never give up.
  2. "There was a judge in a certain city," he said, "who was a godless man with great contempt for everyone.
  3. A widow of that city came to him repeatedly, appealing for justice against someone who had harmed her.
  4. The judge ignored her for a while, but eventually she wore him out. 'I fear neither God nor man,' he said to himself,
  5. 'but this woman is driving me crazy. I'm going to see that she gets justice, because she is wearing me out with her constant requests!'"

Genesis 18:23

  1. Abraham approached him and said, "Will you destroy both innocent and guilty alike?
  2. Suppose you find fifty innocent people there within the city--will you still destroy it, and not spare it for their sakes?
  3. Surely you wouldn't do such a thing, destroying the innocent with the guilty. Why, you would be treating the innocent and the guilty exactly the same! Surely you wouldn't do that! Should not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?"
  4. And the LORD replied, "If I find fifty innocent people in Sodom, I will spare the entire city for their sake."
  5. Then Abraham spoke again. "Since I have begun, let me go on and speak further to my Lord, even though I am but dust and ashes.

Exodus 9:28

  1. Please beg the LORD to end this terrifying thunder and hail. I will let you go at once."
  2. "All right," Moses replied. "As soon as I leave the city, I will lift my hands and pray to the LORD. Then the thunder and hail will stop. This will prove to you that the earth belongs to the LORD.

Romans 3:10

  1. As the Scriptures say, "No one is good--not even one.

2 Chronicles 30:20

  1. And the LORD listened to Hezekiah's prayer and healed the people.

Romans 5:19

  1. Because one person disobeyed God, many people became sinners. But because one other person obeyed God, many people will be made right in God's sight.

1 Kings 17:18

  1. She then said to Elijah, "O man of God, what have you done to me? Have you come here to punish my sins by killing my son?"
  2. But Elijah replied, "Give me your son." And he took the boy's body from her, carried him up to the upper room, where he lived, and laid the body on his bed.
  3. Then Elijah cried out to the LORD, "O LORD my God, why have you brought tragedy on this widow who has opened her home to me, causing her son to die?"
  4. And he stretched himself out over the child three times and cried out to the LORD, "O LORD my God, please let this child's life return to him."
  5. The LORD heard Elijah's prayer, and the life of the child returned, and he came back to life!

1 Thessalonians 5:25

  1. Dear brothers and sisters, pray for us.

2 Kings 4:33

  1. He went in alone and shut the door behind him and prayed to the LORD.
  2. Then he lay down on the child's body, placing his mouth on the child's mouth, his eyes on the child's eyes, and his hands on the child's hands. And the child's body began to grow warm again!
  3. Elisha got up and walked back and forth in the room a few times. Then he stretched himself out again on the child. This time the boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes!

Hebrews 13:18

  1. Pray for us, for our conscience is clear and we want to live honorably in everything we do.

Genesis 19:29

  1. But God had listened to Abraham's request and kept Lot safe, removing him from the disaster that engulfed the cities on the plain.

Acts 4:24

  1. Then all the believers were united as they lifted their voices in prayer: "O Sovereign Lord, Creator of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them--
  2. you spoke long ago by the Holy Spirit through our ancestor King David, your servant, saying, 'Why did the nations rage? Why did the people waste their time with futile plans?
  3. The kings of the earth prepared for battle; the rulers gathered together against the Lord and against his Messiah.'
  4. "That is what has happened here in this city! For Herod Antipas, Pontius Pilate the governor, the Gentiles, and the people of Israel were all united against Jesus, your holy servant, whom you anointed.
  5. In fact, everything they did occurred according to your eternal will and plan.

Hebrews 11:7

  1. It was by faith that Noah built an ark to save his family from the flood. He obeyed God, who warned him about something that had never happened before. By his faith he condemned the rest of the world and was made right in God's sight.

Joshua 10:12

  1. On the day the LORD gave the Israelites victory over the Amorites, Joshua prayed to the LORD in front of all the people of Israel. He said, "Let the sun stand still over Gibeon, and the moon over the valley of Aijalon."

1 Thessalonians 5:23

  1. Now may the God of peace make you holy in every way, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless until that day when our Lord Jesus Christ comes again.

Hebrews 11:4

  1. It was by faith that Abel brought a more acceptable offering to God than Cain did. God accepted Abel's offering to show that he was a righteous man. And although Abel is long dead, he still speaks to us because of his faith.

Numbers 21:7

  1. Then the people came to Moses and cried out, "We have sinned by speaking against the LORD and against you. Pray that the LORD will take away the snakes." So Moses prayed for the people.
  2. Then the LORD told him, "Make a replica of a poisonous snake and attach it to the top of a pole. Those who are bitten will live if they simply look at it!"
  3. So Moses made a snake out of bronze and attached it to the top of a pole. Whenever those who were bitten looked at the bronze snake, they recovered!

Exodus 17:11

  1. As long as Moses held up the staff with his hands, the Israelites had the advantage. But whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites gained the upper hand.

Acts 12:5

  1. But while Peter was in prison, the church prayed very earnestly for him.
  2. The night before Peter was to be placed on trial, he was asleep, chained between two soldiers, with others standing guard at the prison gate.
  3. Suddenly, there was a bright light in the cell, and an angel of the Lord stood before Peter. The angel tapped him on the side to awaken him and said, "Quick! Get up!" And the chains fell off his wrists.
  4. Then the angel told him, "Get dressed and put on your sandals." And he did. "Now put on your coat and follow me," the angel ordered.
  5. So Peter left the cell, following the angel. But all the time he thought it was a vision. He didn't realize it was really happening.

Luke 7:3

  1. When the officer heard about Jesus, he sent some respected Jewish leaders to ask him to come and heal his slave.
  2. So they earnestly begged Jesus to come with them and help the man. "If anyone deserves your help, it is he," they said,

Acts 10:38

  1. And no doubt you know that God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. Then Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the Devil, for God was with him.

1 Kings 13:6

  1. The king cried out to the man of God, "Please ask the LORD your God to restore my hand again!" So the man of God prayed to the LORD, and the king's hand became normal again.

Matthew 18:15

  1. "If another believer sins against you, go privately and point out the fault. If the other person listens and confesses it, you have won that person back.
  2. But if you are unsuccessful, take one or two others with you and go back again, so that everything you say may be confirmed by two or three witnesses.
  3. If that person still refuses to listen, take your case to the church. If the church decides you are right, but the other person won't accept it, treat that person as a pagan or a corrupt tax collector.

Exodus 9:33

  1. So Moses left Pharaoh and went out of the city. As he lifted his hands to the LORD, all at once the thunder and hail stopped, and the downpour ceased.

Exodus 32:10

  1. Now leave me alone so my anger can blaze against them and destroy them all. Then I will make you, Moses, into a great nation instead of them."
  2. But Moses pleaded with the LORD his God not to do it. "O LORD!" he exclaimed. "Why are you so angry with your own people whom you brought from the land of Egypt with such great power and mighty acts?
  3. The Egyptians will say, `God tricked them into coming to the mountains so he could kill them and wipe them from the face of the earth.' Turn away from your fierce anger. Change your mind about this terrible disaster you are planning against your people!
  4. Remember your covenant with your servants--Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You swore by your own self, `I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven. Yes, I will give them all of this land that I have promised to your descendants, and they will possess it forever.'"
  5. So the LORD withdrew his threat and didn't bring against his people the disaster he had threatened.

Luke 9:6

  1. So they began their circuit of the villages, preaching the Good News and healing the sick.

Genesis 41:9

  1. Then the king's cup-bearer spoke up. "Today I have been reminded of my failure," he said.
  2. "Some time ago, you were angry with the chief baker and me, and you imprisoned us in the palace of the captain of the guard.

Hosea 12:3

  1. Before Jacob was born, he struggled with his brother; when he became a man, he even fought with God.
  2. Yes, he wrestled with the angel and won. He wept and pleaded for a blessing from him. There at Bethel he met God face to face, and God spoke to him--

Deuteronomy 9:18

  1. Then for forty days and nights I lay prostrate before the LORD, neither eating bread nor drinking water. I did this because you had sinned by doing what the LORD hated, thus making him very angry.
  2. How I feared for you, for the LORD was ready to destroy you. But again he listened to me.
  3. The LORD was so angry with Aaron that he wanted to destroy him. But I prayed for Aaron, and the LORD spared him.

Genesis 20:7

  1. Now return her to her husband, and he will pray for you, for he is a prophet. Then you will live. But if you don't return her to him, you can be sure that you and your entire household will die."

Daniel 2:18

  1. He urged them to ask the God of heaven to show them his mercy by telling them the secret, so they would not be executed along with the other wise men of Babylon.
  2. That night the secret was revealed to Daniel in a vision. Then Daniel praised the God of heaven,
  3. saying, "Praise the name of God forever and ever, for he alone has all wisdom and power.
  4. He determines the course of world events; he removes kings and sets others on the throne. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the scholars.
  5. He reveals deep and mysterious things and knows what lies hidden in darkness, though he himself is surrounded by light.

Jeremiah 15:1

  1. Then the LORD said to me, "Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for these people, I wouldn't help them. Away with them! Get them out of my sight!

2 Chronicles 32:20

  1. Then King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz cried out in prayer to God in heaven.
  2. And the LORD sent an angel who destroyed the Assyrian army with all its commanders and officers. So Sennacherib returned home in disgrace to his own land. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons killed him there with a sword.
  3. That is how the LORD rescued Hezekiah and the people of Jerusalem from King Sennacherib of Assyria and from all the others who threatened them. So there was peace at last throughout the land.

Genesis 32:28

  1. "Your name will no longer be Jacob," the man told him. "It is now Israel, because you have struggled with both God and men and have won."

2 Kings 19:15

  1. And Hezekiah prayed this prayer before the LORD: "O LORD, God of Israel, you are enthroned between the mighty cherubim! You alone are God of all the kingdoms of the earth. You alone created the heavens and the earth.
  2. Listen to me, O LORD, and hear! Open your eyes, O LORD, and see! Listen to Sennacherib's words of defiance against the living God.
  3. "It is true, LORD, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed all these nations, just as the message says.
  4. And they have thrown the gods of these nations into the fire and burned them. But of course the Assyrians could destroy them! They were not gods at all--only idols of wood and stone shaped by human hands.
  5. Now, O LORD our God, rescue us from his power; then all the kingdoms of the earth will know that you alone, O LORD, are God."

Numbers 14:13

  1. "But what will the Egyptians think when they hear about it?" Moses pleaded with the LORD. "They know full well the power you displayed in rescuing these people from Egypt.
  2. They will tell this to the inhabitants of this land, who are well aware that you are with this people. They know, LORD, that you have appeared in full view of your people in the pillar of cloud that hovers over them. They know that you go before them in the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night.
  3. Now if you slaughter all these people, the nations that have heard of your fame will say,
  4. `The LORD was not able to bring them into the land he swore to give them, so he killed them in the wilderness.'
  5. "Please, Lord, prove that your power is as great as you have claimed it to be. For you said,

2 Chronicles 14:11

  1. Then Asa cried out to the LORD his God, "O LORD, no one but you can help the powerless against the mighty! Help us, O LORD our God, for we trust in you alone. It is in your name that we have come against this vast horde. O LORD, you are our God; do not let mere men prevail against you!"
  2. So the LORD defeated the Ethiopians in the presence of Asa and the army of Judah, and the enemy fled.

1 Samuel 12:18

  1. So Samuel called to the LORD, and the LORD sent thunder and rain. And all the people were terrified of the LORD and of Samuel.

Colossians 1:9

  1. So we have continued praying for you ever since we first heard about you. We ask God to give you a complete understanding of what he wants to do in your lives, and we ask him to make you wise with spiritual wisdom.

2 Samuel 19:19

  1. "My lord the king, please forgive me," he pleaded. "Forget the terrible thing I did when you left Jerusalem.
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