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Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power in its effects.

Eli'jah was a man of like nature with ourselves and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.

chosen and destined by God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

and to an inheritance which is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,

who by God's power are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

In this you rejoice, though now for a little while you may have to suffer various trials,

since it is written, "You shall be holy, for I am holy."

He was destined before the foundation of the world but was made manifest at the end of the times for your sake.

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere love of the brethren, love one another earnestly from the heart.

for "All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,

but the word of the Lord abides for ever." That word is the good news which was preached to you.

Like newborn babes, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up to salvation;

for you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.

For it stands in scripture: "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and he who believes in him will not be put to shame."

To you therefore who believe, he is precious, but for those who do not believe, "The very stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner,"

and "A stone that will make men stumble, a rock that will make them fall"; for they stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme,

For it is God's will that by doing right you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.

Live as free men, yet without using your freedom as a pretext for evil; but live as servants of God.

For one is approved if, mindful of God, he endures pain while suffering unjustly.