¹⁴ Are they not all ^(A)ministering spirits, sent out to provide service for the sake of those who will ^(B)inherit ^(C)salvation?

¹⁶ Therefore, ^(A)confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be ^(B)healed. ^(C)A ^[a]prayer of a righteous person, when it is ^[b]brought about, can accomplish much. ¹⁷ Elijah was ^(D)a man with a nature like ours, and ^(E)he prayed ^[c]earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for ^(F)three years and six months. ¹⁸ Then he ^(G)prayed again, and ^(H)the sky ^[d]poured rain and the earth produced its fruit.

⁸ For ^(A)we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of our ^(B)affliction which occurred in ^[a](C)Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life. ^9 [b]Indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead, ¹⁰ who ^(D)rescued us from so great a danger of death, and will rescue us, He ^[c](E)on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us, ¹¹ if you also join in ^(F)helping us through your prayers, so that thanks may be given by ^(G)many persons in our behalf for the favor granted to us through the prayers of many.

⁵ For even when we came into ^(A)Macedonia our flesh had no rest, but we were ^(B)afflicted on every side: ^(C)conflicts on the outside, fears inside. ⁶ But ^(D)God, who comforts the ^[a]discouraged, ^(E)comforted us by the arrival of ^(F)Titus;

^29 (A)Are two sparrows not sold for an ^[a]assarion? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. ³⁰ But ^(B)even the hairs of your head are all counted. ³¹ So do not fear; ^(C)you are more valuable than a great number of sparrows.

¹⁰ “See that you do not look down on one of these little ones; for I say to you that ^(A)their angels in heaven continually see the face of My Father who is in heaven.^[a]