James 5:16
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16 Therefore, (A)confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, (B)that you may be healed. (C)The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.[a]
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- James 5:16 Or The effective prayer of a righteous person has great power
John 9:31
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31 We know that (A)God does not listen to sinners, but (B)if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.
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Jeremiah 29:12-13
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12 (A)Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, (B)and I will hear you. 13 (C)You will seek me and find me, when you seek me (D)with all your heart.
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Proverbs 15:29
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1 Peter 2:24
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24 (A)He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we (B)might die to sin and (C)live to righteousness. (D)By his wounds you have been healed.
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Psalm 34:15
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Matthew 21:22
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22 And (A)whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, (B)if you have faith.”
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Matthew 7:7-11
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Ask, and It Will Be Given
7 (A)“Ask, (B)and it will be given to you; (C)seek, and you will find; (D)knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or which one of you, if his son asks him for (E)bread, will give him (F)a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? 11 If you then, (G)who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will (H)your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
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Jeremiah 33:3
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3 (A)Call to me and I will answer you, (B)and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.
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1 John 3:22
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22 and (A)whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and (B)do what pleases him.
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Daniel 9:20-22
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Gabriel Brings an Answer
20 (A)While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my plea before the Lord my God for (B)the holy hill of my God, 21 while I was speaking in prayer, the man (C)Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the first, (D)came to me in swift flight at (E)the time of the evening sacrifice. 22 (F)He made me understand, speaking with me and saying, “O Daniel, I have now come out to give you (G)insight and understanding.
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Acts 19:18
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18 Also many of those who were now believers came, (A)confessing and divulging their practices.
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Luke 11:11-13
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11 What father among you, if his son asks for[a] a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; 12 or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13 If you then, (A)who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father (B)give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
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- Luke 11:11 Some manuscripts insert bread, will give him a stone; or if he asks for
Psalm 145:18-19
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18 The Lord is (A)near to all who call on him,
to all who call on him (B)in truth.
19 He (C)fulfills the desire of those who fear him;
he also (D)hears their cry and saves them.
Psalm 10:17-18
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17 O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted;
you will (A)strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear
18 to (B)do justice to the fatherless and (C)the oppressed,
so that (D)man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.
Proverbs 15:8
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8 (A)The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord,
but (B)the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him.
Genesis 20:17
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17 Then (A)Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children.
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Hebrews 12:13
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13 and (A)make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint (B)but rather be healed.
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1 Thessalonians 5:17
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17 (A)pray without ceasing,
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Job 42:8
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8 Now therefore take (A)seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and (B)offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall (C)pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.”
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Numbers 11:2
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2 Then (A)the people cried out to Moses, (B)and Moses prayed to the Lord, and the fire died down.
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Romans 5:19
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19 For as by the one man's (A)disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's (B)obedience the many will be made righteous.
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Luke 18:1-8
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The Parable of the Persistent Widow
18 And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought (A)always to pray and not (B)lose heart. 2 He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who (C)neither feared God nor respected man. 3 And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ 4 For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, (D)‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’” 6 And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says. 7 And (E)will not God give justice to (F)his elect, (G)who cry to him day and night? (H)(I)Will he delay long over them? 8 I tell you, he will give justice to them (J)speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, (K)will he find faith on earth?”
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Matthew 3:6
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6 and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, (A)confessing their sins.
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Proverbs 28:9
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9 If one turns away his ear from hearing the law,
even his (A)prayer is an abomination.
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