Study it in the app“So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The supplication of a righteous person is very powerful in its working.”
James: pray for one another; the prayer of the righteous has great powerPrayerConfess to one another and pray, so that you may be healedForgivenessConfess your sins to one another and pray for one anotherThe Church and Community
Soοὖνconfessἐξομολογεῖσθεyour sinsτὰς ἁμαρτίαςto one anotherἀλλήλοιςandκαὶprayεὔχεσθεforὑπὲρone another,ἀλλήλωνso thatὅπωςyou may be healed.ἰαθῆτεThe supplicationδέησιςof a righteous personδικαίουis very powerfulπολὺ ἰσχύειin its working.ἐνεργουμένη
confess
To admit something openly, like sins.
Where else “exomologeisthe” appearssin
Doing what God does not want, and the guilt it leaves.
Where else “hamartias” appearsone another
One another, each other.
Where else “allēlois” appearspray
Make requests to God.
Where else “euchesthe” appearsheal
Heal, cure.
Where else “iathēte” appearsprayer, petition
Prayer, petition: a prayer that asks for something.
Where else “deēsis” appearsrighteous
One who lives well, as God wants.
Where else “dikaiou” appearsgreat
Of great size or strength, like a crowd or a lament.
Where else “poly” appearsbe able
To have the strength or the capacity to do something.
Where else “ischyei” appearsbe at work
Be at work, operate with power; bring about.
Where else “energoumenē” appears15And the prayer of faith will save the sick person, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he has committed sins, it will be forgiven him.
16 · This verse (above)
17Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.
1. What it says
What warning does James give to the rich who have stored up wealth (v. 1-6)?
2. What it means
James gives the farmer and the prophets as examples (v. 7-11). What does he want to teach about patience through them?
3. How I live it
James encourages praying for one another (v. 13-16). Who needs your prayer or your company this week?
