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,
pray without ceasing,
Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.
do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people,
But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’”
Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my plea before the Lord my God for the holy hill of my God,
I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,
The Lord has heard my plea; the Lord accepts my prayer.
Be on guard, keep awake. For you do not know when the time will come.
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.
and he said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”
In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.
The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.
always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy,
To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have given me relief when I was in distress. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer!
Let your eyes be open to the plea of your servant and to the plea of your people Israel, giving ear to them whenever they call to you.
I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with a clear conscience, as I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day.
And the Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your plea, which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house that you have built, by putting my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.
Now as Solomon finished offering all this prayer and plea to the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, where he had knelt with hands outstretched toward heaven.
And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob's hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. Then he said, “Let me go, for the day has broken.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.” And he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.” Then he said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.
But she came and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, help me.” And he answered, “It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.” She said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table.” Then Jesus answered her, “O woman, great is your faith! Be it done for you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed instantly.
When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where he had windows in his upper chamber open toward Jerusalem. He got down on his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously.
Let these words of mine, with which I have pleaded before the Lord, be near to the Lord our God day and night, and may he maintain the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires,
And he said to them, “Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves, for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him’; and he will answer from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything’? I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence he will rise and give him whatever he needs.
Will he take delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?
and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel,
a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God.
But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
He strove with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought his favor. He met God at Bethel, and there God spoke with us—
O Lord, in distress they sought you; they poured out a whispered prayer when your discipline was upon them.
because I hear of your love and of the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints,
“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.
Mordecai also gave him a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for their destruction, that he might show it to Esther and explain it to her and command her to go to the king to beg his favor and plead with him on behalf of her people.
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan,
since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints,
And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”
the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Josech, the son of Joda,
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