James 5:17
Elijah was a man of flesh and blood as we are, and he made a strong prayer that there might be no rain; and there was no rain on the earth for three years and six months.
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James 5:17
Elijah was a man of flesh and blood as we are, and he made a strong prayer that there might be no rain; and there was no rain on the earth for three years and six months.
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Genesis 4:3
And after a time, Cain gave to the Lord an offering of the fruits of the earth.
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Genesis 8:1
And God kept Noah in mind, and all the living things and the cattle which were with him in the ark: and God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters went down.
Genesis 8:2
And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were shut, and the rain from heaven was stopped.
Exodus 10:19
And the Lord sent a very strong west wind, which took up the locusts, driving them into the Red Sea; not one locust was to be seen in any part of Egypt.
Job 12:10
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all flesh of man.
Job 12:15
Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.
Nahum 1:4
He says sharp words to the sea and makes it dry, drying up all the rivers: Bashan is feeble, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon is without strength.
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Genesis 18:23
And Abraham came near, and said, Will you let destruction come on the upright with the sinners?
Genesis 18:30
And he said, Let not the Lord be angry with me if I say, What if there are thirty there? And he said, I will not do it if there are thirty.
Judges 6:39
Then Gideon said to God, Do not be moved to wrath against me if I say only this: let me make one more test with the wool; let the wool now be dry, while the earth is covered with dew.
Psalms 73:28
But it is good for me to come near to God: I have put my faith in the Lord God, so that I may make clear all his works.
Psalms 145:18
The Lord is near all those who give honour to his name; even to all who give honour to him with true hearts.
Isaiah 55:8
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord.
Isaiah 55:9
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Jeremiah 30:21
And their chief will be of their number; their ruler will come from among themselves; and I will let him be present before me, so that he may come near to me: for who may have strength of heart to come near me? says the Lord.
Luke 18:1
And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;
Hebrews 2:1
For this reason there is the more need for us to give attention to the things which have come to our ears, for fear that by chance we might be slipping away.
Hebrews 10:22
Let us go in with true hearts, in certain faith, having our hearts made free from the sense of sin and our bodies washed with clean water:
1 John 5:15
And if we are certain that he gives ear to all our requests, we are equally certain that we will get our requests.
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Genesis 24:52
And at these words, Abraham's servant went down on his face and gave praise to the Lord.
Joshua 7:6
Then Joshua, in great grief, went down on the earth before the ark of the Lord till the evening, and all the chiefs of Israel with him, and they put dust on their heads.
Mark 14:35
And he went forward a little, and falling down on the earth, made request that, if possible, the hour might go from him.
Acts 10:26
But Peter, lifting him up, said, Get up, for I am a man as you are.
Acts 14:14
But when this came to the ears of the Apostles, Paul and Barnabas, they went running out among the people, parting their clothing, and crying out,
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Genesis 41:27
The seven thin and poor-looking cows who came up after them are seven years; and the seven heads of grain, dry and wasted by the east wind, are seven years when there will be no food.
Genesis 41:30
And after that will come seven years when there will not be enough food; and the memory of the good years will go from men's minds; and the land will be made waste by the bad years;
Genesis 41:54
Then came the first of the seven years of need as Joseph had said: and in every other land they were short of food; but in the land of Egypt there was bread.
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Genesis 49:3
Reuben, you are my oldest son, the first-fruit of my strength, first in pride and first in power:
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Exodus 7:19
And the Lord said, Say to Aaron, Let the rod in your hand be stretched out over the waters of Egypt, and over the rivers and the streams and the pools, and over every stretch of water, so that they may be turned to blood; and there will be blood through all the land of Egypt, in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.
2 Kings 2:8
Then Elijah took off his robe, and, rolling it up, gave the water a blow with it, and the waters were parted, flowing back this way and that, so that they went over on dry land.
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Exodus 8:8
Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said, Make prayer to the Lord that he will take away these frogs from me and my people; and I will let the people go and make their offering to the Lord.
Exodus 8:13
And the Lord did as Moses said; and there was an end of all the frogs in the houses and in the open spaces and in the fields.
Numbers 12:13
And Moses, crying to the Lord, said, Let my prayer come before you, O God, and make her well.
1 Kings 13:6
Then the king made answer and said to the man of God, Make a prayer now for the grace of the Lord your God, and for me, that my hand may be made well. And in answer to the prayer of the man of God, the king's hand was made well again, as it was before.
Job 42:10
And the Lord made up to Job for all his losses, after he had made prayer for his friends: and all Job had before was increased by the Lord twice as much.
Matthew 5:44
But I say to you, Have love for those who are against you, and make prayer for those who are cruel to you;
Luke 6:27
But I say to you who give ear to me, Have love for those who are against you, do good to those who have hate for you,
Luke 6:28
Give blessing to those who give you curses, say prayers for those who are cruel to you.
Luke 23:34
And Jesus said, Father, let them have forgiveness, for they have no knowledge of what they are doing. And they made division of his clothing among them by the decision of chance.
Acts 7:60
And going down on his knees, he said in a loud voice, Lord, do not make them responsible for this sin. And when he had said this, he went to his rest.
Romans 12:14
Give blessing and not curses to those who are cruel to you.
Romans 12:21
Do not let evil overcome you, but overcome evil by good.
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Exodus 8:30
Then Moses went out from Pharaoh and made prayer to the Lord.
Exodus 8:31
And the Lord did as Moses said, and took away the cloud of flies from Pharaoh and from his servants and from his people; not one was to be seen.
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Exodus 32:10
Now do not get in my way, for my wrath is burning against them; I will send destruction on them, but of you I will make a great nation.
Exodus 32:12
Why let the Egyptians say, He took them out to an evil fate, to put them to death on the mountains, cutting them off from the earth? Let your wrath be turned away from them, and send not this evil on your people.
Exodus 32:13
Have in mind Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you gave your oath, saying, I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and all this land will I give to your seed, as I said, to be their heritage for ever.
Numbers 16:48
And he took his place between the dead and the living: and the disease was stopped.
Numbers 25:11
Through Phinehas, and because of his passion for my honour, my wrath has been turned away from the children of Israel, so that I have not sent destruction on them all in my wrath.
Deuteronomy 9:20
And the Lord, in his wrath, would have put Aaron to death: and I made prayer for Aaron at the same time.
Deuteronomy 10:10
And I was in the mountain, as at the first time, for forty days and forty nights; and again the ears of the Lord were open to my prayer, and he did not send destruction on you.
2 Samuel 24:13
So Gad came to David, and gave him word of this and said to him, Are there to be three years when there is not enough food in your land? or will you go in flight from your haters for three months, while they go after you? or will you have three days of violent disease in your land? take thought and say what answer I am to give to him who sent me.
2 Samuel 24:17
And when David saw the angel who was causing the destruction of the people, he said to the Lord, Truly, the sin is mine; I have done wrong: but these are only sheep; what have they done? let your hand be against me and against my family.
Psalms 106:23
And he was purposing to put an end to them if Moses, his special servant, had not gone up before him, between him and his people, turning back his wrath, to keep them from destruction.
Ezekiel 22:30
And I was looking for a man among them who would make up the wall and take his station in the broken place before me for the land, so that I might not send destruction on it: but there was no one.
Amos 7:4
This is what the Lord let me see: and I saw that the Lord God sent for a great fire to be the instrument of his punishment; and, after burning up the great deep, it was about to put an end to the Lord's heritage.
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Leviticus 26:4
Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give their fruit;
2 Chronicles 6:26
When heaven is shut up and there is no rain, because of their sin against you: if they make prayers with their faces turned to this place, honouring your name and turning away from their sin when you send trouble on them:
2 Chronicles 6:27
Then give ear from heaven, so that the sin of your servants and the sin of your people Israel may have forgiveness, when you make clear to them the good way in which they are to go; and send rain on your land which you have given to your people for their heritage.
Job 37:14
Give ear to this, O Job, and keep quiet in your place; and take note of the wonders worked by God.
Ezekiel 34:26
And I will give the rain at the right time, and I will make the shower come down at the right time; there will be showers of blessing.
Hosea 2:21
And it will be, in that day, says the Lord, that I will give an answer to the heavens, and the heavens to the earth;
Hosea 2:22
And the earth will give its answer to the grain and the wine and the oil, and they will give an answer to Jezreel;
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Joshua 10:12
It was on the day when the Lord gave up the Amorites into the hands of the children of Israel that Joshua said to the Lord, before the eyes of Israel, Sun, be at rest over Gibeon; and you, O moon, in the valley of Aijalon.
1 Samuel 7:10
And while Samuel was offering the burned offering, the Philistines came near for the attack on Israel; but at the thunder of the Lord's voice that day the Philistines were overcome with fear, and they gave way before Israel.
Psalms 27:1
Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; who is then a cause of fear to me? the Lord is the strength of my life; who is a danger to me?
Isaiah 60:20
Your sun will never again go down, or your moon keep back her light: for the Lord will be your eternal light, and the days of your sorrow will be ended.
Micah 7:8
Do not be glad because of my sorrow, O my hater: after my fall I will be lifted up; when I am seated in the dark, the Lord will be a light to me.
1 Timothy 6:16
Who only has life for ever, living in light to which no man may come near; whom no man has seen or is able to see: to whom be honour and power for ever. So be it.
1 John 1:5
This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.
1 John 1:7
But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.
Revelation 1:16
And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword: and his face was like the sun shining in its strength.
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1 Samuel 26:25
Then Saul said to David, May a blessing be on you, David, my son; you will do great things and without doubt you will overcome. Then David went on his way, and Saul went back to his place.
Lamentations 1:2
She is sorrowing bitterly in the night, and her face is wet with weeping; among all her lovers she has no comforter: all her friends have been false to her, they have become her haters.
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2 Samuel 12:10
So now the sword will never be turned away from your family; because you have had no respect for me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.
2 Samuel 12:11
The Lord says, From those of your family I will send evil against you, and before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to your neighbour, and he will take your wives to his bed by the light of this sun.
2 Samuel 12:12
You did it secretly; but I will do this thing before all Israel and in the light of the sun.
2 Samuel 12:13
And David said to Nathan, Great is my sin against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, The Lord has put away your sin; death will not come on you.
2 Samuel 12:14
But still, because you have had no respect for the Lord, death will certainly overtake the child who has newly come to birth.
2 Samuel 12:15
Then Nathan went back to his house. And the hand of the Lord was on David's son, the child of Uriah's wife, and it became very ill.
2 Samuel 12:17
And the chief men of his house got up and went to his side to make him get up from the earth, but he would not; and he would not take food with them.
2 Samuel 12:18
And then on the seventh day the child's death took place. And David's servants were in fear of giving him the news of the child's death: for they said, Truly, while the child was still living he gave no attention when we said anything to him: what will he do to himself if we give him word that the child is dead?
2 Samuel 12:19
But when David saw that his servants were talking together quietly, he was certain that the child was dead: and he said to his servants, Is the child dead? and they said, He is.
2 Samuel 12:20
Then David got up from the earth, and after washing and rubbing himself with oil and changing his clothing, he went into the house of the Lord and gave worship: then he went back to his house, and at his order they put food before him and he had a meal.
2 Samuel 12:21
Then his servants said to him, Why have you been acting in this way? you were weeping and going without food while the child was still living; but when the child was dead, you got up and had a meal.
2 Samuel 12:22
And he said, While the child was still living I went without food and gave myself up to weeping: for I said, Who is able to say that the Lord will not have mercy on me and give the child life?
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2 Samuel 12:23
But now that the child is dead there is no reason for me to go without food; am I able to make him come back to life? I will go to him, but he will never come back to me.
2 Samuel 18:33
Then the king was much moved, and went up into the room over the door, weeping, and saying, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! if only my life might have been given for yours, O Absalom, my son, my son!
Psalms 103:13
As a father has pity on his children, so the Lord has pity on his worshippers.
Proverbs 10:1
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.
Proverbs 17:25
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.
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2 Samuel 24:16
And when the hand of the angel was stretched out in the direction of Jerusalem, for its destruction, the Lord had regret for the evil, and said to the angel who was sending destruction on the people, It is enough; do no more. And the angel of the Lord was by the grain-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
Proverbs 29:8
Men of pride are the cause of violent acts in a town, but by wise men wrath is turned away.
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1 Kings 17:4
The water of the stream will be your drink, and by my orders the ravens will give you food there.
1 Kings 17:14
For this is the word of the Lord, the God of Israel: The store of meal will not come to an end, and the bottle will never be without oil, till the day when the Lord sends rain on the earth.
1 Kings 19:5
And stretching himself on the earth, he went to sleep under the broom-plant; but an angel, touching him, said to him, Get up and have some food.
1 Kings 19:19
So he went away from there and came across Elisha, the son of Shaphat, ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen, he himself walking with the twelfth; and Elijah went up to him and put his robe on him.
1 Kings 21:17
And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
2 Kings 1:3
But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, Go now, and, meeting the men sent by the king of Samaria, say to them, Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you are going to get directions from Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?
2 Kings 2:10
And he said, You have made a hard request: still, if you see me when I am taken from you, you will get your desire; but if not, it will not be so.
2 Kings 2:11
And while they went on their way, going on talking together, suddenly there were carriages and horses of fire separating them from one another and Elijah went up to heaven in a great wind.
2 Chronicles 21:12
And a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, The Lord, the God of your father David, says, Because you have not kept to the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or the ways of Asa, king of Judah,
Matthew 4:4
But he made answer and said, It is in the Writings, Bread is not man's only need, but every word which comes out of the mouth of God.
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1 Kings 18:30
Then Elijah said to all the people, Come near to me; and all the people came near. And he put up again the altar of the Lord which had been broken down.
1 Kings 18:31
And Elijah took twelve stones, the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the Lord had said, Israel will be your name:
1 Kings 18:32
And with the stones he made an altar to the name of the Lord; and he made a deep drain all round the altar, great enough to take two measures of seed.
1 Kings 18:33
And he put the wood in order, and, cutting up the ox, put it on the wood. Then he said, Get four vessels full of water and put it on the burned offering and on the wood. And he said, Do it a second time, and they did it a second time;
1 Kings 18:34
And he said, Do it a third time, and they did it a third time.
1 Kings 18:35
And the water went all round the altar, till the drain was full.
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1 Kings 18:10
By the life of the Lord your God, there is not a nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent in search of you; and when they said, He is not here; he made them take an oath that they had not seen you.
2 Kings 1:9
Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty men; and he went up to him where he was seated on the top of a hill, and said to him, O man of God, the king has said, Come down.
2 Kings 6:18
Now when the Aramaeans came down to Elisha, he made a prayer to the Lord saying, Lord, make this people blind. And he made them blind at Elisha's request.
2 Kings 6:20
And when they had come into Samaria, Elisha said, Lord, let the eyes of these men be open so that they may see. And the Lord made their eyes open, and they saw that they were in the middle of Samaria.
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1 Kings 17:21
And stretching herself out on the child three times, he made his prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord my God, be pleased to let this child's life come back to him again.
1 Kings 17:22
And the Lord gave ear to the voice of Elijah, and the child's spirit came into him again, and he came back to life.
1 Kings 17:23
And Elijah took the child down from his room into the house and gave him to his mother and said to her, See, your son is living.
2 Kings 4:33
So he went in, and shutting the door on the two of them, made prayer to the Lord.
Acts 9:40
But Peter made them all go outside, and went down on his knees in prayer; and turning to the body, he said, Tabitha, get up. And, opening her eyes, she saw Peter and got up.
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Exodus 17:4
And Moses, crying out to the Lord, said, What am I to do to this people? they are almost ready to put me to death by stoning.
1 Kings 18:21
And Elijah came near to all the people and said, How long will you go on balancing between two opinions? if the Lord is God, then give worship to him; but if Baal, give worship to him. And the people said not a word in answer.
1 Kings 18:24
And do you make prayers to your god, and I will make a prayer to the Lord: and it will be clear that the one who gives an answer by fire is God. And all the people in answer said, It is well said.
1 Kings 18:26
So they took the ox which was given them, and made it ready, crying out to Baal from morning till the middle of the day, and saying, O Baal, give ear to us. But there was no voice and no answer. And they were jumping up and down before the altar they had made.
1 Kings 18:28
So they gave loud cries, cutting themselves with knives and swords, as was their way, till the blood came streaming out all over them.
2 Kings 19:15
And Hezekiah made his prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord, the God of Israel, seated between the winged ones, you only are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.
2 Chronicles 14:11
And Asa made prayer to the Lord his God and said, Lord, you only are able to give help against the strong to him who has no strength; come to our help, O Lord our God, for our hope is in you, and in your name we have come out against this great army. O Lord, you are our God; let not man's power be greater than yours.
2 Chronicles 32:19
Talking of the God of Jerusalem as if he was like the gods of the peoples of the earth, the work of men's hands.
Isaiah 37:20
But now, O Lord our God, give us salvation from his hand, so that it may be clear to all the kingdoms of the earth that you, and you only, are the Lord.
Daniel 9:18
O my God, let your ear be turned and give hearing; let your eyes be open and see how we have been made waste and the town which is named by your name: for we are not offering our prayers before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercies.
Daniel 9:19
O Lord, give ear; O Lord, have forgiveness; O Lord, take note and do; let there be no more waiting; for the honour of your name, O my God, because your town and your people are named by your name.
Daniel 9:23
At the first word of your prayer a word went out, and I have come to give you knowledge; for you are a man dearly loved: so give thought to the word and let the vision be clear to you.
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Job 7:17
What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him,
Psalms 8:4
What is man, that you keep him in mind? the son of man, that you take him into account?
Psalms 144:3
Lord, what is man, that you keep him in mind? or the son of man that you take him into account?
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Job 36:28
Flowing down from the sky, and dropping on the peoples.
Job 38:34
Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?
Psalms 104:13
He sends down rain from his store-houses on the hills: the earth is full of the fruit of his works.
Psalms 104:14
He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;
Amos 5:7
You who make the work of judging a bitter thing, crushing down righteousness to the earth;
Amos 5:8
Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his name;
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Deuteronomy 11:13
And it will be that if you truly give ear to the orders which I put before you this day, loving the Lord your God and worshipping him with all your heart and all your soul,
Job 36:27
For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,
Job 37:6
For he says to the snow, Make the earth wet; and to the rain-storm, Come down.
Job 37:11
The thick cloud is weighted with thunder-flame, and the cloud sends out its light;
Job 37:13
For a rod, or for a curse, or for mercy, causing it to come on the mark.
Job 38:26
Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;
Job 38:27
To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?
Job 38:28
Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?
Job 38:37
By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,
Psalms 68:10
Those whose resting-place was there, even the poor, were comforted by your good things, O God.
Psalms 147:7
Make songs of praise to the Lord; make melody to our God with instruments of music.
Psalms 148:8
Fire and rain of ice, snow and mists; storm-wind, doing his word:
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Exodus 33:17
And the Lord said to Moses, I will do as you say: for you have grace in my eyes, and I have knowledge of you by your name.
2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, on whom my name is named, make themselves low and come to me in prayer, searching for me and turning from their evil ways; then I will give ear from heaven, overlooking their sin, and will give life again to their land.
Psalms 34:15
The eyes of the Lord are on the upright, and his ears are open to their cry.
Psalms 91:15
When his cry comes up to me, I will give him an answer: I will be with him in trouble; I will make him free from danger and give him honour.
Isaiah 1:15
And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.
John 3:29
He who has the bride is the husband: but the husband's friend, whose place is by his side and whose ears are open to him, is full of joy because of the husband's voice: such is my joy, and it is complete.
John 16:23
And on that day you will put no questions to me. Truly I say to you, Whatever request you make to the Father, he will give it to you in my name.
John 16:24
Up to now you have made no request in my name: do so, and it will be answered, so that your hearts may be full of joy.
Romans 9:27
And Isaiah says about Israel, Even if the number of the children of Israel is as the sand of the sea, only a small part will get salvation:
Romans 11:2
God has not put away the people of his selection. Or have you no knowledge of what is said about Elijah in the holy Writings? how he says words to God against Israel,
Hebrews 7:28
The law makes high priests of men who are feeble; but the word of the oath, which was made after the law, gives that position to a Son, in whom all good is for ever complete.
1 John 5:14
And we are certain that if we make any request to him which is right in his eyes, he will give ear to us:
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Psalms 102:14
For your servants take pleasure in her stones, looking with love on her dust.
Psalms 102:15
So the nations will give honour to the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth will be in fear of his glory:
Psalms 102:16
When the Lord has put up the walls of Zion, and has been been in his glory;
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Nehemiah 1:4
Then, after hearing these words, for some days I gave myself up to weeping and sorrow, seated on the earth; and taking no food I made prayer to the God of heaven,
Nehemiah 1:5
And said, O Lord, the God of heaven, the great God, greatly to be feared, keeping faith and mercy with those who have love for him and are true to his laws:
Nehemiah 1:6
Let your ear now take note and let your eyes be open, so that you may give ear to the prayer of your servant, which I make before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel, your servants, while I put before you the sins of the children of Israel, which we have done against you: truly, I and my father's people are sinners.
Nehemiah 1:7
We have done great wrong against you, and have not kept the orders, the rules, and the decisions, which you gave to your servant Moses.
Nehemiah 1:8
Keep in mind, O Lord, the order you gave your servant Moses, saying, If you do wrong I will send you wandering among the peoples:
Nehemiah 1:9
But if you come back to me and keep my orders and do them, even if those of you who have been forced out are living in the farthest parts of heaven, I will get them from there, and take them back to the place marked out by me for the resting-place of my name.
Nehemiah 1:10
Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have made yours by your great power and by your strong hand.
Nehemiah 1:11
O Lord, let your ear take note of the prayer of your servant, and of the prayers of your servants, who take delight in worshipping your name: give help, O Lord, to your servant this day, and let him have mercy in the eyes of this man. (Now I was the king's wine-servant.)
Psalms 102:13
You will again get up and have mercy on Zion: for the time has come for her to be comforted.
Psalms 102:17
When he has given ear to the prayer of the poor, and has not put his request on one side.
Isaiah 62:6
I have put watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will not keep quiet day or night: you who are the Lord's recorders, take no rest,
Isaiah 62:7
And give him no rest, till he puts Jerusalem in her place to be praised in the earth.
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Psalms 118:18
The hand of Jah has been hard on me; but he has not given me up to death.
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2 Kings 5:11
But Naaman was angry and went away and said, I had the idea that he would come out to see such an important person as I am, and make prayer to the Lord his God, and with a wave of his hand over the place make the leper well.
Psalms 66:18
I said in my heart, The Lord will not give ear to me:
Psalms 66:19
But truly God's ear has been open; he has give attention to the voice of my prayer.
Psalms 145:19
To his worshippers, he will give their desire; their cry comes to his ears, and he gives them salvation.
Proverbs 15:29
The Lord is far from sinners, but his ear is open to the prayer of the upright.
Isaiah 38:7
And Isaiah said, This is the sign the Lord will give you, that he will do what he has said:
Daniel 6:10
And Daniel, on hearing that the writing had been signed, went into his house; (now he had windows in his room on the roof opening in the direction of Jerusalem;) and three times a day he went down on his knees in prayer and praise before his God, as he had done before.
2 Corinthians 1:9
Yes, we ourselves have had the answer of death in ourselves, so that our hope might not be in ourselves, but in God who is able to give life to the dead:
2 Corinthians 5:2
For in this we are crying in weariness, greatly desiring to be clothed with our house from heaven:
2 Thessalonians 2:9
Even the one whose coming is marked by the working of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders,
James 1:6
Let him make his request in faith, doubting nothing; for he who has doubt in his heart is like the waves of the sea, which are troubled by the driving of the wind.
James 5:13
Is anyone among you in trouble? let him say prayers. Is anyone glad? let him make a song of praise.
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Isaiah 37:17
Let your ear be turned to us, O Lord; let your eyes be open, O Lord, and see: take note of all the words of Sennacherib who has sent men to say evil against the living God.
Isaiah 37:18
Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have made waste all the nations and their lands,
Isaiah 37:19
And have given their gods to the fire: for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.
Daniel 9:17
And now, give ear, O our God, to the prayer of your servant and to his request for grace, and let your face be shining on your holy place which is made waste, because of your servants, O Lord.
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Isaiah 42:6
I the Lord have made you the vessel of my purpose, I have taken you by the hand, and kept you safe, and I have given you to be an agreement to the people, and a light to the nations:
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Isaiah 42:7
To give eyes to the blind, to make free the prisoners from the prison, to let out those who are shut up in the dark.
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Job 22:2
Is it possible for a man to be of profit to God? No, for a man's wisdom is only of profit to himself.
Psalms 34:16
The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to take away the memory of them from the earth.
Psalms 34:17
The cry of the upright comes before the Lord, and he takes them out of all their troubles.
Jeremiah 29:10
For this is what the Lord has said: When seventy years are ended for Babylon, I will have pity on you and give effect to my good purpose for you, causing you to come back to this place.
Jeremiah 29:11
For I am conscious of my thoughts about you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you hope at the end.
Micah 3:4
Then they will be crying to the Lord for help, but he will not give them an answer: yes, he will keep his face veiled from them at that time, because their acts have been evil.
Romans 8:26
And in the same way the Spirit is a help to our feeble hearts: for we are not able to make prayer to God in the right way; but the Spirit puts our desires into words which are not in our power to say;
Romans 8:27
And he who is the searcher of hearts has knowledge of the mind of the Spirit, because he is making prayers for the saints in agreement with the mind of God.
2 Corinthians 8:16
But praise be to God, who puts the same care for you into the heart of Titus.
Hebrews 12:21
And the vision was so overpowering that even Moses said, I am shaking and full of fear.
1 Peter 3:12
For the eyes of the Lord are on the upright, and his ears are open to their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.
2 Peter 3:3
Having first of all the knowledge that in the last days there will be men who, ruled by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things,
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Daniel 9:24
Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place.
Daniel 9:27
And a strong order will be sent out against the great number for one week; and so for half of the week the offering and the meal offering will come to an end; and in its place will be an unclean thing causing fear; till the destruction which has been fixed is let loose on him who has made waste.
Daniel 12:7
Then in my hearing the man clothed in linen, who was over the river, lifting up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, took an oath by him who is living for ever that it would be a time, times, and a half; and when the power of the crusher of the holy people comes to an end, all these things will be ended.
Daniel 12:11
And from the time when the regular burned offering is taken away, and an unclean thing causing fear is put up, there will be a thousand, two hundred and ninety days.
Daniel 12:12
A blessing will be on the man who goes on waiting, and comes to the thousand, three hundred and thirty-five days.
Luke 6:13
And the day came and, turning to his disciples, he made a selection from among them of twelve, to whom he gave the name of Apostles;
Revelation 11:7
And when they have come to the end of their witness, the beast which comes up out of the great deep will make war on them and overcome them and put them to death.
Revelation 11:13
And in that hour there was a great earth-shock and a tenth part of the town came to destruction; and in the earth-shock seven thousand persons came to their end: and the rest were in fear, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
Revelation 13:5
And there was given to him a mouth to say words of pride against God; and there was given to him authority to go on for forty-two months.
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Leviticus 26:18
And if, even after these things, you will not give ear to me, then I will send you punishment seven times more for your sins.
Leviticus 26:19
And the pride of your strength will be broken, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as brass;
Leviticus 26:20
And your strength will be used up without profit; for your land will not give her increase and the trees of the field will not give their fruit.
Leviticus 26:21
And if you still go against me and will not give ear to me, I will put seven times more punishments on you because of your sins.
Leviticus 26:23
And if by these things you will not be turned to me, but still go against me;
Leviticus 26:24
Then I will go against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for all your sins.
Leviticus 26:27
And if, after all this, you do not give ear to me, but go against me still,
Leviticus 26:28
Then my wrath will be burning against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for your sins.
Jeremiah 3:3
So the showers have been kept back, and there has been no spring rain; still your brow is the brow of a loose woman, you will not let yourself be shamed.
Jeremiah 5:25
Through your evil-doing these things have been turned away, and your sins have kept back good from you.
Haggai 1:10
For this cause the heaven over you is kept from giving dew, and the earth from giving her fruit.
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Matthew 11:14
And if you are able to see it, this is Elijah who was to come.
Matthew 16:14
And they said, Some say, John the Baptist; some, Elijah; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.
Luke 9:19
And they, answering, said, John the Baptist; but others say Elijah; and others, that one of the old prophets has come back.
Luke 9:30
And two men, Moses and Elijah, were talking with him;
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Luke 2:1
Now it came about in those days that an order went out from Caesar Augustus that there was to be a numbering of all the world.
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Zechariah 3:1
And he let me see Joshua, the high priest, in his place before the angel of the Lord, and the Satan at his right hand ready to take up a cause against him.
Acts 9:31
And so the church through all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was made strong; and, living in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, was increased greatly.
2 Corinthians 7:7
And not by his coming only, but by the comfort which he had in you, while he gave us word of your desire, your sorrow, your care for me; so that I was still more glad.
1 John 5:17
All evil-doing is sin: but death is not the punishment for every sort of sin.
Jude 1:3
My loved ones, while my thoughts were full of a letter which I was going to send you about our common salvation, it was necessary for me to send you one requesting you with all my heart to go on fighting strongly for the faith which has been given to the saints once and for ever.
Jude 1:9
Now when Michael, one of the chief angels, was fighting against the Evil One for the body of Moses, fearing to make use of violent words against him, he only said, May the Lord be your judge.
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Acts 23:14
And they came to the chief priests and the rulers and said, We have taken a great oath to take no food till we have put Paul to death
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Acts 28:16
And when we came into Rome, they let Paul have a house for himself and the armed man who kept watch over him.
1 Timothy 3:8
Deacons, in the same way, are to be serious in their behaviour, not false in word, not given to taking much wine or greatly desiring the wealth of this world;
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Romans 15:30
Now I make request to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you will be working together with me in your prayers to God for me;
Romans 15:31
So that I may be kept safe from those in Judaea who have not put themselves under the rule of God, and that the help which I am taking for Jerusalem may be pleasing to the saints;
Romans 15:32
So that I may come to you in joy by the good pleasure of God, and have rest with you.
2 Corinthians 9:14
While their hearts go out to you in love and in prayer for you, because of the great grace of God which is in you.
Ephesians 6:19
And for me, that words may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make clear without fear the secret of the good news,
Philippians 1:19
For I am conscious that this will be for my salvation, through your prayer and the giving out of the stored wealth of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
Philippians 1:20
In the measure of my strong hope and belief that in nothing will I be put to shame, but that without fear, as at all times, so now will Christ have glory in my body, by life or by death.
Colossians 4:3
And making prayer for us, that God may give us an open door for the preaching of the word, the secret of Christ, for which I am now in chains;
1 Thessalonians 5:25
Brothers, keep us in mind in your prayers.
2 Thessalonians 3:1
For the rest, my brothers, let there be prayer for us that the word of the Lord may go forward with increasing glory, even as it does with you;
Philemon 1:22
And make a room ready for me; for I am hoping that through your prayers I will be given to you.
Hebrews 13:18
Make prayers for us, for we are certain that our hearts are free from the sense of sin, desiring the right way of life in all things.
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1 Corinthians 2:5
So that your faith might be based not on man's wisdom but on the power of God.
1 Corinthians 2:6
But still we have wisdom for those who are complete in knowledge, though not the wisdom of this world, and not of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing:
1 Corinthians 2:7
But we give the news of the secret wisdom of God, which he had kept in store before the world came into existence, for our glory;
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James 1:22
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.
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James 1:23
Because if any man is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a glass;
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James 4:13
How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth:
James 4:14
When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.
James 4:15
But the right thing to say would be, If it is the Lord's pleasure and if we are still living, we will do this and that.
James 4:16
But now you go on glorying in your pride: and all such glorying is evil.
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Proverbs 3:11
My son, do not make your heart hard against the Lord's teaching; do not be made angry by his training:
Malachi 3:4
Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord, as in days gone by, and as in past years.
James 1:2
Let it be all joy to you, my brothers, when you undergo tests of every sort;
James 1:12
There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him.
James 5:7
Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come.
James 5:10
Take as an example of pain nobly undergone and of strength in trouble, the prophets who gave to men the words of the Lord.
James 5:11
We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.
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Genesis 32:25
But when the man saw that he was not able to overcome Jacob, he gave him a blow in the hollow part of his leg, so that his leg was damaged.
Genesis 32:27
Then he said, What is your name? And he said, Jacob.
Psalms 50:15
Let your voice come up to me in the day of trouble; I will be your saviour, so that you may give glory to me.
Jeremiah 29:12
And you will go on crying to me and making prayer to me, and I will give ear to you.
Jeremiah 29:13
And you will be searching for me and I will be there, when you have gone after me with all your heart.
Hosea 12:3
In the body of his mother he took his brother by the foot, and in his strength he was fighting with God;
Matthew 6:5
And when you make your prayers, be not like the false-hearted men, who take pleasure in getting up and saying their prayers in the Synagogues and at the street turnings so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.
Matthew 7:7
Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you:
Matthew 7:8
Because to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire, and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open.
Matthew 15:28
Then Jesus, answering, said to her, O woman, great is your faith: let your desire be done. And her daughter was made well from that hour.
Matthew 21:22
And all things, whatever you make request for in prayer, having faith, you will get.
1 John 5:16
If a man sees his brother doing a sin which is not bad enough for death, let him make a prayer to God, and God will give life to him whose sin was not bad enough for death. There is a sin whose punishment is death: I do not say that he may make such a request then.
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