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16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another [your false steps, your offenses], and pray for one another, that you may be healed and restored. The heartfelt and persistent prayer of a righteous man (believer) can accomplish much [when put into action and made effective by God—it is dynamic and can have tremendous power]. 17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours [with the same physical, mental, and spiritual limitations and shortcomings], and he prayed [a]intensely for it not to rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.(A) 18 Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the land produced its crops [as usual].(B)

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Footnotes

  1. James 5:17 Lit with prayer, an idiom of emphasis derived from Hebrew.

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