Luke 18:1
He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray and not give up,
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Luke 18:1
He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray and not give up,
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Genesis 18:19
For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”
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Genesis 18:30
He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?” He said, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”
Genesis 18:32
He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.”
Ezra 9:6
and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.
Nehemiah 1:6
let your ear now be attentive and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants, while I confess the sins of the children of Israel which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father’s house have sinned.
Job 42:6
Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”
Job 42:7
It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
Job 42:8
Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.”
Isaiah 6:5
Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips and I live among a people of unclean lips, for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”
1 Peter 3:7
You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
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Exodus 17:10
So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
Exodus 17:12
But Moses’ hands were heavy; so they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until sunset.
Exodus 17:13
Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
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Exodus 32:10
Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation.”
Exodus 32:11
Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
Exodus 32:12
Why should the Egyptians talk, saying, ‘He brought them out for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?’ Turn from your fierce wrath, and turn away from this evil against your people.
Exodus 32:13
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’ ”
Deuteronomy 9:14
Leave me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.”
Jeremiah 14:11
Yahweh said to me, “Don’t pray for this people for their good.
Jeremiah 14:21
Do not abhor us, for your name’s sake. Do not disgrace the throne of your glory. Remember, and don’t break your covenant with us.
Jeremiah 15:1
Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!
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Joshua 24:15
If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”
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2 Samuel 7:16
Your house and your kingdom will be made sure forever before you. Your throne will be established forever.” ’ ”
Proverbs 18:10
Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.
Song of Solomon 3:4
I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me.
Hosea 12:6
Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.
Hosea 12:14
Ephraim has bitterly provoked anger. Therefore his blood will be left on him, and his Lord will repay his contempt.
Hosea 14:2
Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good; so we offer bulls as we vowed of our lips.
Zechariah 13:9
I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”
Luke 13:24
“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.
Acts 10:30
Cornelius said, “Four days ago, I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour, I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing
Romans 2:7
to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
2 Corinthians 1:11
you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.
Colossians 2:1
For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
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2 Samuel 15:31
Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”
2 Samuel 17:14
Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.
2 Samuel 17:23
When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home to his city, set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.
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1 Chronicles 10:13
So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against Yahweh, because of Yahweh’s word, which he didn’t keep, and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire,
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1 Chronicles 10:14
and didn’t inquire of Yahweh. Therefore he killed him, and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse.
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Nehemiah 2:4
Then the king said to me, “What is your request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.
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Nehemiah 2:6
The king said to me (the queen was also sitting by him), “How long will your journey be? When will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me, and I set a time for him.
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Nehemiah 10:33
for the show bread, for the continual meal offering, for the continual burnt offering, for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, for the set feasts, for the holy things, for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.
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Job 7:2
As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,
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Genesis 49:18
I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.
Deuteronomy 20:8
The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, “What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother’s heart melt as his heart.”
Psalms 25:5
Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation. I wait for you all day long.
Psalms 37:7
Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.
Psalms 62:5
My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.
Psalms 130:5
I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.
Psalms 130:6
My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.
Isaiah 8:17
I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
Isaiah 40:29
He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.
Isaiah 40:31
but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.
Micah 7:7
But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
Habakkuk 2:3
For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it, because it will surely come. It won’t delay.
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Genesis 22:14
Abraham called the name of that place “Yahweh Will Provide”. As it is said to this day, “On Yahweh’s mountain, it will be provided.”
Genesis 32:9
Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,’
1 Samuel 23:12
Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?” Yahweh said, “They will deliver you up.”
Psalms 25:8
Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.
Psalms 25:9
He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.
Psalms 91:15
He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
Psalms 145:18
Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Matthew 6:33
But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
Romans 15:30
Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,
1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
1 John 3:22
so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
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Psalms 41:11
By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.
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Exodus 29:42
It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.
1 Kings 10:8
Happy are your men, happy are these your servants who stand continually before you, who hear your wisdom.
2 Chronicles 7:14
if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Psalms 27:4
One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
Psalms 27:8
When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”
Psalms 56:9
Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this: that God is for me.
Psalms 141:2
Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
Proverbs 10:24
What the wicked fear will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
Matthew 13:21
yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.
Luke 11:13
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”
Hebrews 2:3
how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,
James 5:11
Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
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Psalms 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
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Psalms 78:34
When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.
Psalms 78:35
They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.
Psalms 78:36
But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.
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Psalms 5:2
Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God, for I pray to you.
Psalms 109:4
In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.
Psalms 119:62
At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you, because of your righteous ordinances.
Psalms 119:147
I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.
Psalms 119:148
My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.
Proverbs 30:9
lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is Yahweh?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.
Daniel 6:13
Then they answered and said before the king, “That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, doesn’t respect you, O king, nor the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.”
Matthew 26:40
He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “What, couldn’t you watch with me for one hour?
Mark 1:35
Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.
Mark 6:46
After he had taken leave of them, he went up the mountain to pray.
Mark 14:39
Again he went away and prayed, saying the same words.
Luke 5:16
But he withdrew himself into the desert and prayed.
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Psalms 119:82
My eyes fail for your word. I say, “When will you comfort me?”
Psalms 119:123
My eyes fail looking for your salvation, for your righteous word.
Psalms 119:124
Deal with your servant according to your loving kindness. Teach me your statutes.
Psalms 119:125
I am your servant. Give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies.
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Psalms 71:14
But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.
Psalms 71:15
My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don’t know its full measure.
Psalms 71:16
I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Yahweh. I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone.
Psalms 71:17
God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.
Psalms 71:18
Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.
Psalms 73:23
Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.
Psalms 119:112
I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, even to the end.
Psalms 146:2
While I live, I will praise Yahweh. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.
Proverbs 23:17
Don’t let your heart envy sinners, but rather fear Yahweh all day long.
Proverbs 23:18
Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.
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Genesis 32:10
I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.
Genesis 32:24
Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.
Genesis 32:29
Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” He said, “Why is it that you ask what my name is?” So he blessed him there.
Job 5:8
“But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,
Psalms 4:1
Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.
Psalms 18:6
In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.
Psalms 130:2
Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.
Isaiah 26:3
You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.
Isaiah 50:10
Who among you fears Yahweh and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.
Daniel 9:2
in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about which Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah the prophet for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.
Philippians 4:7
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 5:7
He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
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Psalms 4:4
Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.
Psalms 4:5
Offer the sacrifices of righteousness. Put your trust in Yahweh.
Psalms 6:9
Yahweh has heard my supplication. Yahweh accepts my prayer.
Psalms 86:7
In the day of my trouble I will call on you, for you will answer me.
Psalms 116:2
Because he has turned his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
Psalms 141:1
Yahweh, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you.
Proverbs 2:2
so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
Isaiah 26:16
Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.
Daniel 6:16
Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel and cast him into the den of lions. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you.”
Acts 10:3
At about the ninth hour of the day, he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God coming to him and saying to him, “Cornelius!”
Ephesians 6:16
above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.
James 1:25
But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
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Job 29:16
I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know.
Psalms 80:4
Yahweh God of Armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
Psalms 85:5
Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations?
Isaiah 58:2
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.
Isaiah 58:3
‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers.
Isaiah 58:6
“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
Isaiah 58:7
Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?
Isaiah 58:8
Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.
Isaiah 58:9
Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;
Lamentations 3:8
Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
Lamentations 3:44
You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
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Lamentations 3:58
Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul. You have redeemed my life.
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Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
Job 27:9
Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?
Psalms 86:3
Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long.
Psalms 145:19
He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
Daniel 9:3
I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
Hosea 7:14
They haven’t cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.
Amos 6:10
“When a man’s relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, ‘Is there yet any with you?’ And he says, ‘No;’ then he will say, ‘Hush! Indeed we must not mention Yahweh’s name.’
Zechariah 1:3
Therefore tell them, Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
Matthew 9:13
But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
Acts 9:11
The Lord said to him, “Arise and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judah for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying,
Acts 10:4
He, fastening his eyes on him and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.
James 4:2
You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.
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Psalms 31:22
As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
Lamentations 3:18
I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.”
Lamentations 3:54
Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”
Lamentations 3:55
I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.
Lamentations 3:56
You heard my voice: “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry.”
Lamentations 3:57
You came near in the day that I called on you. You said, “Don’t be afraid.”
Jonah 2:2
He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.
Jonah 2:3
For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.
Jonah 2:4
I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’
Jonah 2:5
The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.
Jonah 2:6
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever; yet you have brought my life up from the pit, Yahweh my God.
Jonah 2:8
Those who regard vain idols forsake their own mercy.
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Habakkuk 3:17
For even though the fig tree doesn’t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines, the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food, the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls,
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Habakkuk 3:18
yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!
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2 Kings 6:33
While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, “Behold, this evil is from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?”
Psalms 37:9
For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.
Isaiah 33:5
Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high. He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
Zephaniah 3:16
In that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, “Don’t be afraid, Zion. Don’t let your hands be weak.”
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Matthew 13:3
He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.
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Mark 6:48
Seeing them distressed in rowing, for the wind was contrary to them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea; and he would have passed by them,
Luke 9:18
As he was praying alone, the disciples were near him, and he asked them, “Who do the multitudes say that I am?”
Luke 21:34
“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
Luke 22:40
When he was at the place, he said to them, “Pray that you don’t enter into temptation.”
Luke 22:46
and said to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”
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Luke 4:6
The devil said to him, “I will give you all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I want.
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Luke 11:3
Give us day by day our daily bread.
Luke 11:6
for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him,’
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Luke 11:4
Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’ ”
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Luke 17:22
He said to the disciples, “The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.
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2 Chronicles 6:24
“If your people Israel are struck down before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and they turn again and confess your name, and pray and make supplication before you in this house,
Isaiah 37:1
When king Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house.
Luke 6:28
bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.
Luke 10:2
Then he said to them, “The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.
Luke 18:10
“Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.
Luke 18:11
The Pharisee stood and prayed by himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men: extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
Luke 24:52
They worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,
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Luke 18:15
They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
Luke 18:16
Jesus summoned them, saying, “Allow the little children to come to me, and don’t hinder them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.
Luke 18:17
Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn’t receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”
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Luke 18:18
A certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
Luke 18:24
Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!
Luke 18:26
Those who heard it said, “Then who can be saved?”
Luke 18:27
But he said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.”
Luke 18:28
Peter said, “Look, we have left everything and followed you.”
Luke 18:29
He said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for God’s Kingdom’s sake,
Luke 18:30
who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life.”
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Luke 18:32
For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on.
Luke 18:33
They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise again.”
Luke 18:34
They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn’t understand the things that were said.
Luke 24:26
Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”
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1 Samuel 1:25
They killed the bull, and brought the child to Eli.
2 Kings 13:19
The man of God was angry with him, and said, “You should have struck five or six times. Then you would have struck Syria until you had consumed it, but now you will strike Syria just three times.”
Matthew 17:20
He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.
John 14:13
Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
John 16:23
“In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
John 16:24
Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.
James 1:5
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
James 1:6
But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
James 1:7
For that man shouldn’t think that he will receive anything from the Lord.
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John 18:20
Jesus answered him, “I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.
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Acts 2:1
Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.
Acts 2:42
They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.
Acts 2:46
Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,
Acts 4:24
When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord and said, “O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;
Acts 4:25
who by the mouth of your servant David, said, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
Acts 4:26
The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take council together, against the Lord, and against his Christ.’
Acts 4:27
“For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed,
Acts 4:28
to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.
Acts 4:29
Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness,
Acts 4:30
while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus.”
Acts 4:31
When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.
Ephesians 6:20
for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
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Acts 12:12
Thinking about that, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was called Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.
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Luke 3:26
the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Joseph, the son of Judah,
Luke 3:37
the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan,
Romans 1:9
For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,
Ephesians 1:16
don’t cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,
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Ephesians 4:16
from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.
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Colossians 2:19
and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.
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Acts 26:7
which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!
1 Timothy 5:5
Now she who is a widow indeed and desolate, has her hope set on God and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.
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Hebrews 10:20
by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh,
Hebrews 10:21
and having a great priest over God’s house,
Hebrews 10:22
let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and having our body washed with pure water,
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Psalms 74:20
Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
Joel 1:19
Yahweh, I cry to you, for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.
Romans 8:37
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
Hebrews 10:25
not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
Hebrews 11:6
Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
Hebrews 11:30
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.
Hebrews 12:1
Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
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1 Corinthians 12:26
When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
Hebrews 13:3
Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.
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1 Kings 18:44
On the seventh time, he said, “Behold, a small cloud, like a man’s hand, is rising out of the sea.” He said, “Go up, tell Ahab, ‘Get ready and go down, so that the rain doesn’t stop you.’ ”
Luke 4:25
But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.
James 5:17
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.
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