Prayer

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• James 5:17 NT

  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.

• Genesis 32:26 OT

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

• Luke 11:8 NT

  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.

• Luke 11:9 NT

  “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 18:1-7 NT

  He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up, saying, “There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God, and didn’t respect man. A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, ‘Defend me…

• 1 Timothy 5:5 NT

  Now she who is a widow indeed and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:17 NT

  Pray without ceasing.

• Genesis 28:20 OT

  Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,

• Proverbs 30:8 OT

  Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me,

• Matthew 6:11 NT

  Give us today our daily bread.

• Matthew 6:33 NT

  But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

• Matthew 6:9-13 NT

  Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors. Bring us not…

• Matthew 6:7 NT

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

• Matthew 6:5 NT

  “When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.

• 1 Kings 8:33 OT

  “When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house;

• Nehemiah 1:4 OT

  When I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and mourned several days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,

• Nehemiah 1:7 OT

  We have dealt very corruptly against you, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances, which you commanded your servant Moses.

• Daniel 9:4-11 OT

  I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made confession, and said, “Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments, we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have…

• Genesis 18:27 OT

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

• Jeremiah 31:9 OT

  They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.

• Hosea 12:4 OT

  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,

• Daniel 9:3 OT

  I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

• Acts 13:3 NT

  Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

• Luke 21:36 NT

  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.”