James 5:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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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.

James 5:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 29:12-13
Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. …
Proverbs 15:29
The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.
Matthew 21:22
And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Psalms 34:15
The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
John 9:31
Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-20)

This epistle now drawing to a close, the penman goes off very quickly from one thing to another: hence it is that matters so very different are insisted on in these few verses. I. The sin of swearing is cautioned against: But above all things, my brethren, swear not, etc., Jas. 5:12. Some understand this too restrictedly, as if the meaning were, “Swear not at your persecutors, at those that reproa…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16. The oldest authorities read, “Confess, THEREFORE,” &c. Not only in the particular case of sickness, but universally confess. faults--your falls and offenses, in relation to one another. The word is not the same as sins. Mt 5:23, 24; Lu 17:4, illustrate the precept here. one to another--not to the priest, as Rome insists. The Church of England recommends in certain cases. Rome compels confessio…