Elijah

by Frederick Hoehn, copyright 2014, all rights reserved.

Chapter 1

One of the important Old Testament Prophets is Elijah.  His successor was Elisha.  Another Old Testament Prophet is Isaiah, who has an Old Testament Book named after him.  An important person of the Old Testament is Noah.

But these four men are called by different names in the King James Version of the New Testament.  The King James New Testament names for those four are:  Elias, Eliseus, Esaias, and Noe.

Here is the narrative about Elijah from the book of First Kings from the Holy Bible, Hoehn Version, (Amazon.com).

___1_Kings chapter 17

1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the Lord God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word."

2 And the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

3 "Get from here, and turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.

4 And it shall be, that you shall drink of the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there."

5 So he went and did according to the word of the Lord, for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.

6 And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening, and he drank of the brook.

7 And after a while, the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.

8 And the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

9 "Get up and go to Zarephath, that belongs to Zidon, and live there, see, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain you."

10 So he got up and went to Zarephath.  And when he came to the gate of the city, see, the widow woman was there gathering sticks, and he called to her, and said, "Fetch me, please, a little water in a container, so I can drink."

11 And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, "Bring me, please, a morsel of bread in your hand."

12 And she said, "As the Lord your God lives, I don't have a cake, but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse, and see, I am gathering two sticks, so I can go in and dress it for me and my son, so we can eat it, and die."

13 And Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid, go and do as you have said, but make of it for me a little cake first, and bring it to me, and afterward make for you and for your son.

14 For thus says the Lord God of Israel, the barrel of meal shall not run out, nor shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord sends rain on the earth."

15 And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah, and she, and he, and her house, ate many days.

16 And the barrel of meal didn't run out, nor did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, that he spoke by Elijah.

17 And after these things, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, got sick, and his sickness was so severe, that there was no breath left in him.

18 And she said to Elijah, "What have I to do with you, O man of God?  Have you come to me to call my sin to remembrance, and to kill my son?"

19 And he said to her, "Give me your son."  And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he lived, and laid him on his own bed.

20 And he called to the Lord, and said, "O Lord my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I visit, by killing her son?"

21 And he stretched himself on the child three times, and called to the Lord, and said, "O Lord my God, please, let this child's soul come into him again."

22 And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah, and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.

23 And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the room into the house, and delivered him to his mother, and Elijah said, "See, your son lives."

24 And the woman said to Elijah, "Now by this I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is truth."

___1_Kings chapter 18

1 And after many days, the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the earth."

2 And Elijah went to show himself to Ahab.  And there was a severe famine in Samaria.

3 And Ahab called Obadiah, who was the governor of his house.  (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly,

4 For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

5 And Ahab said to Obadiah, go into the land, to all fountains of water, and to all brooks, perhaps we'll find grass to save the horses and mules alive, so we don't lose all the animals.

6 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it, Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.

7 And as Obadiah was on the way, Elijah met him, and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, "Are you my lord Elijah?"

8 And he answered him, "I am, go, tell your lord, see, Elijah is here."

9 And he said, "What have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?

10 As the Lord your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom, where my lord has not sent to seek you, and when they said, he is not there, he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn't find you.

11 And now you say, go, tell your lord, see, Elijah is here.

12 And as soon as I've gone from you, the Spirit of the Lord shall carry you I don't know where, and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can't find you, he'll kill me, but I your servant fear the Lord from my youth.

13 Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the Lord, how I hid a hundred men of the Lord's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

14 And now you say, go, tell your lord, see, Elijah is here, and he'll kill me."

15 And Elijah said, as the Lord of hosts lives, before whom I stand, "I will surely show myself to him today."

16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him, and Ahab went to meet Elijah.

17 And when Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, "Are you he that troubles Israel?"

18 And he answered, "I have not troubled Israel, but you, and your father's house, in that you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and you have followed Baalim.

19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, who eat at Jezebel's table."

20 So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together to Mount Carmel.

21 And Elijah came to all the people, and said, "How long do you halt between two opinions?  If the Lord is God, follow him, but if Baal, then follow him."  And the people didn't answer him a word.

22 Then Elijah said to the people, "I, even I only, remain a prophet of the Lord, but Baal's prophets are four hundred fifty men.

23 Let them therefore give us two bullocks, and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under, and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under,

24 And you call on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord, and the God that answers by fire, let him be God."  And all the people answered and said, "It is well spoken."

25 And Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, choose one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first, for you are many, and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under.

26 And they took the bullock that was given to them, and they prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, "O Baal, hear us."  But there was no voice, nor any that answered.  And they jumped on the altar that was made.

27 And at noon, Elijah mocked them, and said, "Cry out loud, for he is a god, either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or perhaps he's sleeping, and must be awakened."

28 And they cried out loud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, 'til the blood gushed out from them.

29 And when midday was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.

30 And Elijah said to all the people, "Come near to me."  And all the people came near to him.  And he repaired the altar of the Lord that had been broken down.

31 And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord came, saying, Israel shall be your name,

32 And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord, and he made a trench around the altar, as large as would contain two measures of seed.

33 And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and said, "Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood."

34 And he said, "Do it the second time."  And they did it the second time.  And he said, "Do it the third time."  And they did it the third time.

35 And the water ran all around the altar, and he filled the trench also with water.

36 And at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet came near, and said, "Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.

37 Hear me, O Lord, hear me, so these people will know that you are the Lord God, and that you have turned their heart back again."

38 Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces, and they said, "The Lord, he is the God, the Lord, he is the God."

40 And Elijah said to them, "Take the prophets of Baal, don't let one of them escape."  And they took them, and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.

41 And Elijah said to Ahab, "Get up, eat and drink, for there is a sound of abundance of rain."

42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink.  And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel, and he threw himself down on the earth, and put his face between his knees,

43 And said to his servant, "Go up now, look toward the sea."  And he went up, and looked, and said, "There is nothing."  And he said, "Go again seven times."

44 And at the seventh time, he said, "See, there arises a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand."  And he said, "Go up, say to Ahab, prepare your chariot, and get down, so that the rain doesn't stop you."

45 And in the mean while, the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain.  And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.

46 And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah, and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

___1_Kings chapter 19

1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.

2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don't make your life like the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time."

3 And when he saw that, he got up, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree, and he requested for himself that to die, and said, "It is enough, now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am not better than my fathers."

5 And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, see, then an angel touched him, and said to him, "Get up and eat."

6 And he looked, and, see, there was a cake baked on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head.  And he are and drank, and laid down again.

7 And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him, and said, "Get up and eat, because the journey is too great for you."

8 And he got up, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mountain of God.

9 And he came there to a cave, and lodged there, and, see, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"

10 And he said, "I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts, for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away."

11 And he said, "Go out, and stand on the mountain before the Lord."  And, see, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind, and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake,

12 And after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire, and after the fire a still small voice.

13 And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave.  And see, a voice came to him, and said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"

14 And he said, "I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts, because the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down yours altars, and killed your prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away."

15 And the Lord said to him, "Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus, and when you come, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria,

16 And Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint to be king over Israel, and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah you shall anoint to be prophet in your office.

17 And him that escapes the sword of Hazael shall Jehu kill, and him that escapes from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha kill.

18 Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, whose knees have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him."

19 So he departed there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth, and Elijah passed by him, and threw his mantle on him.

20 And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, "Let me, please, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you."  And he said to him, "Go back again, for what have I done to you?"

21 And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate.  Then he got up, and went after Elijah, and ministered to him.

Chapter 2

The widow woman was somewhat reluctant to make a cake for Elijah because she and her son had so little.  But it was good that she did make a cake for Elijah, because the meal and the oil were in continuous supply from then on, for many days.

Then the woman’s son got sick, and Elijah prayed and got him healed.

Because of the wickedness of Israel, Elijah got the rain stopped.  This made King Ahab an adversary to Elijah, but God preserved Elijah.

In the third year of the drought, God told Elijah to show himself to Ahab.

There was going to be a showdown.  All the prophets of Baal were gathered.  There would be a sacrifice.  The prophets of Baal’s sacrifice was prepared, but no one was allowed to light the fire.

The God who answered by fire would be the real God.  Elijah gave the prophets of Baal first chance for their God to light the fire.  But they couldn’t get him to do it.

Then Elijah prepared an altar and a sacrifice.  Elijah had them pour water on the sacrifice.  Then again.  Then again, and the water went down into the trench.

Elijah called on the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and the fire came from God, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench, proving that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel was the real God, and that Baal was not God.

God chose Elisha to replace Elijah.

When it came time for Elisha to replace Elijah, Elisha asked for a double portion of Elijah’s spirit.  Elijah said, “If you see me go, you’ll have it.”

Elisha saw Elijah go up to heaven in a chariot of fire.

Elisha had asked for a double portion of Elijah’s spirit.  And Elisha saw Elijah go up to heaven.

People have counted the miracles of Elijah and Elisha and have said that Elisha had twice as many miracles as Elijah.

But Elijah didn’t die a normal death.  He was translated to heaven.

Another man from the Old Testament was also translated to heaven, and didn’t have a normal death:  Enoch.

But in the book of Hebrews in the New Testament, we are told, “It is appointed to men once to die.”

I believe those two, Enoch and Elijah, will be sent back to earth to be the two “Olive Trees” of Revelation chapter 11, who will preach to the inhabitants of the earth.

Eventually they’ll be killed, and their dead bodies will lay around for a while.  Then God will raise them from the dead, and their enemies will see, and the two will go up to heaven.

I am aware that in Islam, it is taught that Mohammed went up in a chariot to heaven when he died, like Elijah did.  Please let me explain.  Elijah did, Mohammed didn’t.

Someone might say, “But how can you know that?”  It’s really very simple.  People who start false religions don’t go to heaven, they go to hell.

___James chapter 1

1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes that are dispersed around, greetings.

2 My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into various temptations,

3 Knowing this, that the testing of your faith works patience.

4 But let patience have its perfect work, so you'll be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.

5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God for it, who gives to all men liberally, and won't find fault, and it shall be given to him.

6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.  For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.

7 For let that man not think that he'll receive anything from the Lord.

8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted,

10 But the rich, in that he is made low, because as the flower of the grass he'll pass away.

11 For the sun has no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and the flower of it falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes, so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

12 Blessed is the man that endures temptation, for after he's been tested, he'll receive the crown of life, that the Lord has promised to those who love him.

13 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted with evil, nor does he tempt any man,

14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

15 Then when lust has conceived, it produces sin, and sin when it's finished, produces death.

16 Do not err, my beloved brothers.

17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, nor shadow of turning.

18 He chose to father us with the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

19 So, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

20 For the anger of man doesn't accomplish the righteousness of God.

21 So, lay apart all filthiness and the unnecessary naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man seeing his natural face in a mirror,

24 For he sees himself, and goes his way, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

25 But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues in it, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

26 If any man among you seems to be religious, and doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is for nothing.

27 Pure religion and undefiled before God the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

___James chapter 2

1 My brothers, don't have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.

2 For if a man with a gold ring comes to your assembly in fancy clothes, and a poor man in dirty clothes comes in also,

3 And you have respect to him that wears the fancy clothes, and say to him, "Sit here in a good place," and say to the poor, "Stand there, or sit here under my footstool,"

4 Aren't you then partial in yourselves, and have become judges with evil thoughts?

5 Listen, my beloved brothers, hasn't God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?

6 But you have despised the poor.  Don't rich men oppress you, and bring you before the judgment seats?

7 Don't they blaspheme that worthy name by which you're called?

8 If you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor like yourself," you do well,

9 But if you have respect of persons, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as sinners.

10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

11 For he that said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not kill."  Now if you don't commit adultery, yet if you kill, you've become a breaker of the law.

12 Speak in such a way, and do, as those who'll be judged by the law of liberty.

13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has shown no mercy, and mercy rejoices against judgment.

14 What does it profit, my brothers, though a man says he has faith, and doesn't have works?  Can faith save him?

15 If a brother or sister needs clothes, and lacks daily food,

16 And one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, be warmed and filled," but you don't give them the things that are needed for the body, what good is that?

17 Even so faith, if it doesn't have works, is dead, being alone.

18 Yes, a man could say, "You have faith, and I have works, show me your faith without your works, and I'll show you my faith by my works."

19 You believe that there is one God, you do well, the devils also believe, and tremble.

20 But don't you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

21 Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son on the altar?

22 Do you see how faith worked with his deeds, and by works faith was made perfect?

23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness, and he was called the friend of God."

24 You see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

25 Likewise also wasn't Rahab the prostitute justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?

26 For like the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

___James chapter 3

1 My brothers, don't be many masters, knowing that we'll receive the greater condemnation.

2 For in many things we offend all.  If any man doesn't offend in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

3 See, we put bits in the horses' mouths, so they'll obey us, and we turn around their whole bodies.

4 Look also at the ships, which though they're so large, and are driven by fierce winds, yet they're turned around by a very small helm, wherever the captain wants.

5 Even so, the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things.  See how great a matter a little fire kindles!

6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of sin, so is the tongue among our members that it makes dirty the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire by hell.

7 For every kind of animals, and of birds, and of snakes, and of things in the sea, gets tamed, and has been tamed by mankind,

8 But no man can tame the tongue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

9 With it we bless God, the Father, and with it we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God.

10 Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing.  My brothers, these things ought not to be.

11 Does a fountain send out at the same place sweet water and bitter?

12 Can the fig tree, my brothers, produce olive berries?  Or a vine, figs?  So no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh.

13 Who is a wise man, possessing knowledge among you?  Let him show out of a good lifestyle his works with meekness of wisdom.

14 But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, don't glory, and don't lie against the truth.

15 This wisdom doesn't descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be reasoned with, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

18 And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace by those who make peace.

___James chapter 4

1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from?  Don't they come from your lusts that war in your members?

2 You lust, and don't have, you kill, and desire to have, and can't obtain, you fight and war, yet you don't have, because you don't ask.

3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask wrongly, so you can consume it on your lusts.

4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God?  Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world is an enemy of God.

5 Do you think that the scripture says for nothing, "The spirit that lives in us lusts to envy?"

6 But he gives more grace.  So he says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

7 Submit yourselves therefore to God.  Resist the devil, and he'll run away from you.

8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.  Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double minded.

9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and cry, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he'll lift you up.

11 Don't speak evil about each other, brothers.  He that speaks evil about his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil about the law, and judges the law, but if you judge the law, you're not a doer of the law, but a judge.

12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy, who are you that judges someone else?

13 Go on now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we'll go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and make a profit,"

14 Actually, you don't know what will happen tomorrow.  For what is your life?  It is a puff of steam, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

15 For you ought to say, "Lord willing, we'll live, and do this, or that."

16 But now you rejoice in your boastings, all such rejoicing is evil.

17 Therefore to him that knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.

___James chapter 5

1 Go on now, you rich men, cry and howl for your miseries that shall come on you.

2 Your riches are corrupted, and your clothes are moth eaten.

3 Your gold and silver are rusted, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh like fire.  You've heaped treasure together for the last days.

4 See, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you've kept back by fraud, shouts, and the shouts of those who've reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabbath.

5 You've lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton, you've nourished your hearts, like in a day of slaughter.

6 You've condemned and killed the just, and he doesn't resist you.

7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord.  See, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and latter rain.

8 You also be patient.  Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is getting near.

9 Don't grudge against each other, brothers, so you won't be condemned, see, the judge stands at the door.

10 Take, my brothers, the prophets, who've spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

11 See, we count them happy that endure.  You've heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

12 But above all things, my brothers, don't swear, not by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath, but let your yes be yes, and your no, no, so that you don't fall into condemnation.

13 Is anyone among you afflicted?  Let him pray.  Is anyone merry?  Let him sing psalms.

14 Is anyone sick among you?  Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,

15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if he has committed sins, he'll be forgiven.

16 Confess your faults to each other, and pray for each other so you'll be healed.  The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man is does a lot of good.

17 Elijah was a man subject to the same kind of passions that we are, and he prayed earnestly that it wouldn't rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months.

18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.

19 Brothers, if any of you strays from the truth, and someone converts him,

20 Let him know, that he that converts the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.