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13 Are you hurting? Pray. Do you feel great? Sing.
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13 Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise.
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14 Are you sick? Call the church leaders together to pray and anoint you with oil in the name of the Master.
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14 Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord.
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15 Believing-prayer will heal you, and Jesus will put you on your feet. And if you've sinned, you'll be forgiven - healed inside and out.
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15 And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.
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16 Make this your common practice: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed. The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with.
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16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.
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17 Elijah, for instance, human just like us, prayed hard that it wouldn't rain, and it didn't - not a drop for three and a half years.
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17 Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.
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18 Then he prayed that it would rain, and it did. The showers came and everything started growing again.
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18 Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops.
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