Readings for Lent and Easter

¹³ If you are having trouble, you should pray. And if you are feeling good, you should sing praises. ^14 (A) If you are sick, ask the church leaders^[a] to come and pray for you. Ask them to put olive oil^[b] on you in the name of the Lord. ¹⁵ If you have faith when you pray for sick people, they will get well. The Lord will heal them, and if they have sinned, he will forgive them.

^16 (B) If you have sinned, you should tell each other what you have done. Then you can pray for one another and be healed. The prayer of an innocent person is powerful, and it can help a lot. ^17 (C) Elijah was just as human as we are, and for three and a half years his prayers kept the rain from falling. ^18 (D) But when he did pray for rain, it fell from the skies and made the crops grow.