What good is it, my brothers [and sisters], if a person says he has faith but does not have [good] deeds? Can such faith save him?

But, as it is, you people are boasting in your arrogance [and] all such boasting is evil.

Is anyone among you sick? [Then] he should call for the elders of the church and they should pray for him, after pouring [olive] oil on him in the name [i.e., by the authority] of the Lord.

And if their prayer is [offered] by faith, [God] will heal the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up [from his sickbed]. And if he had sinned, he will be forgiven for them [Note: This may imply that the man's sickness was the result of some sin. In any event, his forgiveness would follow his repentance].

Then he prayed again and the sky poured rain and the ground produced its crop.