The Prayer of Faith
13Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him vsing praise. 14Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, wanointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And xif he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 16Therefore, yconfess your sins to one another and pray for one another, zthat you may be healed. aThe prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.2 17Elijah was a man bwith a nature like ours, and che prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for dthree years and six months it did not rain on the earth. 18eThen he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.
19My brothers, fif anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone gbrings him back, 20let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering hwill save his soul from death and iwill cover a multitude of sins.
Footnotes
- 2 5:16 Or The effective prayer of a righteous person has great power
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Patience, Prayer, and the God Who Cares James 5:7–20 Series • ID: 15904Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The ESV text may not be quoted in any publication made available to the public by a Creative Commons license. The ESV may not be translated in whole or in part into any other language.