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.
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Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. …
The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.
And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
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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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 repro…
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