EXODUS 10 : 17
Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that he may also take away from me this death."
Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that he may also take away from me this death."
Moses spoke to Yahweh, saying,
It repents me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments. Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.
He said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?
David built there an altar to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings and peace-offerings. So Yahweh was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
He cried to Yahweh, and said, Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I sojourn, by killing her son?
He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to Yahweh, and said, Yahweh my God, please let this child's soul come into him again.
Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to Yahweh, saying,
Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, that it not be to my sorrow! God granted him that which he requested.
When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you do afflict them:
So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he was entreated of us.
"Oh that I might have my request; That God would grant the thing that I long for!
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."
But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself him who is godly: Yahweh will hear when I call to him.
I have called on you, for you will answer me, God: Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.
God, who is enthroned forever, Will hear, and answer them. Selah. They never change, Who don't fear God.
I cry out to God Most High, To God who accomplishes my requests for me.
Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.
By the blessing of the upright, the city is exalted, But it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer is an abomination.
It shall happen, when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, and shall come to his sanctuary to pray, that he shall not prevail.
and said, Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight. Hezekiah wept sore.
Go, and tell Hezekiah, Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold, I will add to your days fifteen years.
but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to Yahweh for it; for in the peace of it shall you have peace.
You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions should nor perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
Then said he to me, Don't be afraid, Daniel; for from the first day that you did set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard: and I am come for your words' sake.
So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, "What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your gods! Maybe the gods will notice us, so that we won't perish."
Therefore they cried to Yahweh, and said, "We beg you, Yahweh, we beg you, let us not perish for this man's life, and don't lay on us innocent blood; for you, Yahweh, have done as it pleased you."
Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish's belly.
"When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."
He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke the loaves, and he gave to his disciples to set before them, and he divided the two fish among them all.
After he had taken leave of them, he went up the mountain to pray.
He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground, and he took the seven loaves. Having given thanks, he broke them, and gave them to his disciples to serve, and they served the multitude.
He said to them, "This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting."
He taught, saying to them, "Isn't it written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?' But you have made it a den of robbers!"
Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them.
Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.
those who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation."
They came to a place which was named Gethsemane. He said to his disciples, "Sit here, while I pray."
He went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him.
Again he went away, and prayed, saying the same words.
But the angel said to him, "Don't be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.
and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn't depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day.
But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.
So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, "Father, I thank you that you listened to me.
Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;
I pray for them. I don't pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
It happened, as we were going to prayer, that a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.
I thank my God whenever I remember you,
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
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,
that I may reveal it as I ought to speak.
We always give thanks to God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers,
night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
Pray without ceasing.
Brothers, pray for us.
I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting.
that the fellowship of your faith may become effective, in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus.
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,
Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.
For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."
Confess your offenses to one another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The effective, earnest prayer of a righteous man is powerfully effective.
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, And his ears open to their prayer; But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."
Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.
But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.