Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray at all times and not lose heart:
Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful,
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.
Pray without ceasing.
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance i
But I call to God, and the LORD saves me.
Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand b
Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Be merciful to me, O Lord, for I call to You all day long.
He will turn toward the prayer of the destitute; He will not despise their prayer.
Then Jesus said to them, “Suppose one of you goes to his friend at midnight and says, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of b
Therefore, since God in His mercy has given us this ministry, we do not lose heart.
I cry to You, O LORD: “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”
Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you greetings. He is always wrestling in prayer for you
So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
O You who listen to prayer, all people will come to You.
As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD. My prayer went up to You, to Your holy temple.
Still I am certain to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
Then Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country
For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.