“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.”
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective — the exhortation to mutual confession (exhomologeō, openly acknowledge) and prayer establishes communal accountability and intercession as means to healing. The assertion that the prayer of a righteous one (dikaiou) has 'much power' (ischyei poly) and is 'effective' (energeō, works/is operative) establishes the spiritual efficacy of the righteous person's prayer.
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