James 5:16-17

The Prayer of Faith

¹⁶ Therefore, _y confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, _z that you may be healed. _a The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. ₁ ¹⁷ Elijah was a man _b with a nature like ours, and _c he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for _d three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.

1. Cross References
   Acts 19:18
   Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices.
   
2. Cross References
   Hebrews 12:13
   And make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.
   
3. Cross References
   Genesis 18:23 - 32
   Then Abraham drew near and said, "Will you inde...
   Genesis 20:17
   Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abim...
   Numbers 11:2
   Then the people cried out to Moses, and Moses p...
   1 Kings 13:6
   And the king said to the man of God, "Entreat n...
   1 Kings 17:22
   And the Lord listened to the voice of Elijah. A...
   2 Kings 4:33
   So he went in and shut the door behind the two ...
   2 Kings 19:15 - 20
   And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and said: "...
   2 Kings 20:2 - 5
   Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and p...
   Job 42:8
   Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams a...
   Proverbs 15:29
   The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears t...
   
4. Cross References
   Acts 14:15
   Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men, of like nature with you, and we bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.
   
5. Cross References
   1 Kings 17:1
   Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.
   1 Kings 18:1
   After many days the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the earth.
   
6. Cross References
   Luke 4:25
   But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land.