^{16 Ref} Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

^{17 Ref} Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

^{18 Ref} And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.