Luke 18:1

Luke 18:1
He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray and not give up,

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Ephesians 6:18
with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints.

Ephesians 6:19
Pray for me, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,

1 Thessalonians 5:17
Pray without ceasing.

Colossians 4:2
Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

Psalms 55:17
Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.

Luke 21:36
Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

1 Samuel 12:23
Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you; but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

Acts 12:5
Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.

1 Thessalonians 3:10
night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

1 Kings 18:43
He said to his servant, “Go up now and look toward the sea.” He went up and looked, then said, “There is nothing.” He said, “Go again” seven times.

Acts 10:9
Now on the next day as they were on their journey and got close to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about noon.

Colossians 4:12
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

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Luke 18:2
saying, “There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God and didn’t respect man.

Luke 18:3
A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, ‘Defend me from my adversary!’

Luke 18:4
He wouldn’t for a while; but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man,

Luke 18:5
yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.’ ”

Luke 18:6
The Lord said, “Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.

Luke 18:7
Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

Luke 18:8
I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”

Luke 18:39
Those who led the way rebuked him, that he should be quiet; but he cried out all the more, “You son of David, have mercy on me!”

Luke 11:7
and he from within will answer and say, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can’t get up and give it to you’?

Acts 7:51
“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

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Romans 12:12
rejoicing in hope, enduring in troubles, continuing steadfastly in prayer,

Job 27:10
Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?

Daniel 6:10
When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.

Philippians 4:6
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Psalms 55:16
As for me, I will call on God. Yahweh will save me.

Acts 6:4
But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word.”

1 Thessalonians 5:18
In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

Job 15:4
Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.

Psalms 86:6
Hear, Yahweh, my prayer. Listen to the voice of my petitions.

Psalms 88:1
Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

Colossians 1:9
For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

2 Timothy 1:3
I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

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Luke 11:8
I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.

Genesis 32:25
When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him, the man touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained as he wrestled.

Genesis 32:26
The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go unless you bless me.”

Genesis 32:27
He said to him, “What is your name?” He said, “Jacob”.

Genesis 32:28
He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

Matthew 15:22
Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders and cried, saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David! My daughter is severely possessed by a demon!”

Matthew 15:23
But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away; for she cries after us.”

Matthew 15:24
But he answered, “I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

Matthew 15:25
But she came and worshiped him, saying, “Lord, help me.”

Matthew 15:26
But he answered, “It is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

Matthew 15:27
But she said, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”

Matthew 15:28
Then Jesus answered her, “Woman, great is your faith! Be it done to you even as you desire.” And her daughter was healed from that hour.

Luke 11:5
He said to them, “Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight and tell him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

Hosea 12:4
Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us—

Matthew 20:31
The multitude rebuked them, telling them that they should be quiet, but they cried out even more, “Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!”

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Galatians 6:9
Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season if we don’t give up.

2 Corinthians 4:1
Therefore, seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

2 Thessalonians 3:13
But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing what is right.

2 Corinthians 4:16
Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward person is decaying, yet our inward person is renewed day by day.

Ephesians 3:13
Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.

Hebrews 12:3
For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

Hebrews 12:4
You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.

Hebrews 12:5
You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

Revelation 2:3
You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

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Luke 11:9
“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

Luke 11:10
For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

Matthew 7:7
“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

Matthew 7:8
For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

2 Corinthians 12:8
Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.

2 Corinthians 12:9
He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

James 5:16
Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

Matthew 26:44
He left them again, went away, and prayed a third time, saying the same words.

Jeremiah 29:12
You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

Matthew 7:11
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

Matthew 26:41
Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Hebrews 4:16
Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.

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Acts 10:2
a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

Acts 1:14
All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

Acts 3:1
Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.

1 Chronicles 16:11
Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

Psalms 5:3
Yahweh, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

Daniel 6:20
When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?”

Luke 2:37
and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.

Luke 24:53
and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.

1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

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1 Timothy 2:8
I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.

Exodus 17:11
When Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed. When he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.

1 Samuel 1:12
As she continued praying before Yahweh, Eli saw her mouth.

Psalms 119:2
Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

Jeremiah 29:13
You shall seek me and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.

Matthew 18:20
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”

Matthew 21:22
All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

Matthew 26:42
Again, a second time he went away and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cup can’t pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done.”

Matthew 26:43
He came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.

John 15:7
If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

James 4:3
You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

James 5:13
Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.

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Genesis 18:27
Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

Genesis 18:31
He said, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the twenty’s sake.”

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Psalms 27:13
I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

Psalms 27:14
Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

Psalms 40:1
I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.

Psalms 40:2
He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

Psalms 40:3
He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.

Psalms 123:2
Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to Yahweh, our God, until he has mercy on us.

Lamentations 3:25
Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

Lamentations 3:26
It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.

Jonah 2:7
“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

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Isaiah 62:6
I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. They will never be silent day nor night. You who call on Yahweh, take no rest,

Isaiah 62:7
and give him no rest until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

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Daniel 9:17
“Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.

Daniel 9:18
My God, turn your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.

Daniel 9:19
Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord, listen and do. Don’t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.”

1 Kings 8:28
Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant and for his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you today;

2 Chronicles 6:19
Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant and to his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you;

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Psalms 50:15
Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

Matthew 6:7
In praying, don’t use vain repetitions as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.

Matthew 18:19
Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven.

Mark 11:24
Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.

Luke 11:1
When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”

Luke 11:2
He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

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Luke 18:9
He also spoke this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others:

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Proverbs 2:3
yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;

Proverbs 2:4
if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;

Proverbs 2:5
then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.

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Luke 18:25
For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”

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Luke 18:31
He took the twelve aside and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.

Luke 19:11
As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that God’s Kingdom would be revealed immediately.

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