13. Are any of you in trouble? You should pray. Are any of you happy? You should sing praises.
14. Are any of you ill? You should send for the church elders, who will pray for them and rub olive oil on them in the name of the Lord.
15. This prayer made in faith will heal the sick; the Lord will restore them to health, and the sins they have committed will be forgiven.
16. So then, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you will be healed. The prayer of a good person has a powerful effect.
17. Elijah was the same kind of person as we are. He prayed earnestly that there would be no rain, and no rain fell on the land for three and a half years.
18. Once again he prayed, and the sky poured out its rain and the earth produced its crops.
19. My brothers and sisters, if any of you wander away from the truth and another one brings them back again,
20. remember this: whoever turns a sinner back from his or her wrong way will save that sinner's soul from death and bring about the forgiveness of many sins.