¹⁵ And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. ^(A)And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. ^16 [a]Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. ^(B)The effective, ^[b]fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. ¹⁷ Elijah was a man ^(C)with a nature like ours, and ^(D)he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.