You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many.
for I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance,
For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.
So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.
At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison—
Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience, desiring to act honorably in all things.
At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping that through your prayers I will be graciously given to you.
Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you,
I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf, that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints, so that by God's will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.
praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints, and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel,
Brothers, pray for us.
while they long for you and pray for you, because of the surpassing grace of God upon you.
You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God. For the ministry of this service is not only supplying the needs of the saints but is also overflowing in many thanksgivings to God.
On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have set watchmen; all the day and all the night they shall never be silent. You who put the Lord in remembrance, take no rest, and give him no rest until he establishes Jerusalem and makes it a praise in the earth.
It may be that the Lord your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the Lord your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”
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