The Prayer of Faith

James 5:16

In 9 translations

BSB: Therefore 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.
KJV: Confess 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.
WEB: Confess 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.
ASV: Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.
LSV: Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that you may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;
YLT: Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;
DBY: Confess therefore your offences to one another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. [The] fervent supplication of the righteous [man] has much power.
DRC: Confess therefore your sins one to another: and pray one for another, that you may be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man availeth much.
GNV: Acknowledge your faultes one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed: for the prayer of a righteous man auaileth much, if it be feruent.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Greek has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Where the editions differ

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In STEPBible’s comparison, NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles include οὖν (“therefore”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text do not include this wording.
NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read τὰς (“the”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read τὰ (“the”).
NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read ἁμαρτίας (“sins”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read παραπτώματα (“trespasses”).
NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Tregelles, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read εὔχεσθε (“do pray”); Westcott–Hort read προσεύχεσθε (“do pray about”).

SBLGNT apparatus (3)

A comparison of published Greek editions. “Add” means after the SBLGNT wording; “omit” refers to that wording.

SBLGNT: οὖν. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read οὖν; Robinson–Pierpont omit this wording.
SBLGNT: τὰς ἁμαρτίας. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read τὰς ἁμαρτίας; Robinson–Pierpont read τὰ παραπτώματα.
SBLGNT: εὔχεσθε. Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition, Robinson–Pierpont read εὔχεσθε; Westcott and Hort (1881) read προσεύχεσθε.

Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.

Original-language editions

SBLGNT: ἐξομολογεῖσθε οὖν ἀλλήλοις τὰς ἁμαρτίας καὶ εὔχεσθε ὑπὲρ ἀλλήλων, ὅπως ἰαθῆτε. πολὺ ἰσχύει δέησις δικαίου ἐνεργουμένη.
RP2018: Ἐξομολογεῖσθε ἀλλήλοις τὰ παραπτώματα, καὶ εὔχεσθε ὑπὲρ ἀλλήλων, ὅπως ἰαθῆτε. Πολὺ ἰσχύει δέησις δικαίου ἐνεργουμένη.
TR-Boyd: Ἐξομολογεῖσθε ἀλλήλοις τὰ παραπτώματα, καὶ εὔχεσθε ὑπὲρ ἀλλήλων, ὅπως ἰαθῆτε. Πολὺ ἰσχύει δέησις δικαίου ἐνεργουμένη.
SCR1894: εξομολογεισθε αλληλοις τα παραπτωματα και ευχεσθε υπερ αλληλων οπως ιαθητε πολυ ισχυει δεησις δικαιου ενεργουμενη

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

Prayer Intercession Effectual prayer Avail Confession Fervent Effect; Effectual Afflicted, Duty toward the Fault Confession of Sin

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

Jeremiah 29:12–13Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
Proverbs 15:29The LORD is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous.
Matthew 21:22If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”
Psalms 34:15The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry.
John 9:31We know that God does not listen to sinners, but He does listen to the one who worships Him and does His will.
Psalms 145:18–19The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth. He fulfills the desires of those who fear Him; He hears their cry and saves them.
Jeremiah 33:3Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
1 Peter 2:24He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
Matthew 7:7–11Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. Which of you, if…
1 John 3:22and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight.
Daniel 9:20–22While I was speaking, praying, confessing my sin and that of my people Israel, and presenting my petition before the LORD my God concerning His holy mountain— while I was still praying, Gabriel, the man I had seen in…
Proverbs 15:8The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
Acts 19:18Many who had believed now came forward, confessing and disclosing their deeds.
Luke 11:11–13What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead? Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more…
Psalms 10:17–18You have heard, O LORD, the desire of the humble; You will strengthen their hearts. You will incline Your ear, to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.
1 Thessalonians 5:17Pray without ceasing.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).