16. Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.
17. Elijah was as human as we are, and yet when he prayed earnestly that no rain would fall, none fell for three and a half years!
18. Then, when he prayed again, the sky sent down rain and the earth began to yield its crops.
19. My dear brothers and sisters, if someone among you wanders away from the truth and is brought back,
20. you can be sure that whoever brings the sinner back from wandering will save that person from death and bring about the forgiveness of many sins.