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.
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
Confessez donc vos péchés les uns aux autres, et priez les uns pour les autres, afin que vous soyez guéris. La prière fervente du juste a une grande efficace.
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.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
r another. Objection 2: Further, the prayers of the just are not void, but efficacious, according to James 5:16 : "The continued prayer of a just man availeth much." Now he had previously said: "Pray one for another, that you may be saved." Hence, since man's salvation can only b…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
f God, we hope to obtain from Him. But we ask God to bring others to eternal happiness, according to James 5:16 : "Pray for one another that you may be saved." Therefore we can hope for another's eternal happiness. Objection 3: Further, hope and despair are about the same object.…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
lves. Therefore it would seem that we ought not to pray for others. On the contrary, It is written ( James 5:16 ): "Pray one for another, that you may be saved." I answer that, As stated above (A[6]) , when we pray we ought to ask for what we ought to desire. Now we ought to desi…
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