11 translations · Greek
James 5:16
Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
James 5:16 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
- KJV King James Version
- 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.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- 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.
- ASV American Standard Version
- 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 Literal Standard Version
- 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;
- FBV Free Bible Version
- Admit the wrongs you've done to each other, and pray for one another so that you'll be healed. Earnest prayer from those who live right is very effective.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- 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 Darby Translation
- 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.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of the righteous man availeth much.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- 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.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- 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.
The Greek words
Each word of the Greek text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ἐξομολογεῖσθε | Exomologeisthe | confess | G1843 ἐξομολογέομαι to agree |
| οὖν | oun | Therefore | G3767 οὖν therefore/then |
| ἀλλήλοις | allēlois | to each other | G240 ἀλλήλων one another |
| τὰς | tas | [your] | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| ἁμαρτίας | hamartias | sins | G266 ἁμαρτία sin |
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 καί and |
| εὔχεσθε | euchesthe | pray | G2172 εὔχομαι to pray/wish for |
| ὑπὲρ | hyper | for | G5228 ὑπέρ above/for |
| ἀλλήλων | allēlōn | each other | G240 ἀλλήλων one another |
| ὅπως | hopōs | so that | G3704 ὅπως that |
| ἰαθῆτε | iathēte | you may be healed | G2390 ἰάομαι to heal |
| πολὺ | poly | — | G4183 πολύς much |
| ἰσχύει | ischyei | to prevail | G2480 ἰσχύω be strong |
| δέησις | deēsis | [The] prayer | G1162 δέησις petition |
| δικαίου | dikaiou | of a righteous [man] | G1342 δίκαιος just |
| ἐνεργουμένη | energoumenē | has great power | G1754 ἐνεργέω be active |
Related verses
- Jeremiah 29:12–13
You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You shall seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.
- Proverbs 15:29
Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
- Matthew 21:22
All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”
- Psalm 34:15
Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.
- John 9:31
We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.
- Psalm 145:18–19
Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
- Jeremiah 33:3
‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’
- 1 Peter 2:24
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
- Matthew 7:7–11
“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? …
- 1 John 3:22
and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
14 Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,
15 and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
16 Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.
18 He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.
Read all of James 5 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
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Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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