Luke 18:1

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Luke 18:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray at all times and not lose heart:

2 “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected men.

3 And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’

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Luke 11:5

Then Jesus said to them, “Suppose one of you goes to his friend at midnight and says, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

Luke 11:6

because a friend of mine has come to me on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him.’

Luke 11:7

And suppose the one inside answers, ‘Do not bother me. My door is already shut, and my children and I are in bed. I cannot get up to give you anything.’

Luke 11:8

I tell you, even though he will not get up to provide for him because of his friendship, yet because of the man’s persistence, he will get up and give him as much as he needs.

Luke 21:36

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 before the Son of Man.”

Genesis 32:9

Then Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,’

Genesis 32:10

I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, with only my staff I came across the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.

Genesis 32:11

Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me.

Genesis 32:12

But You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.’”

Genesis 32:24

So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

Genesis 32:25

When the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he struck the socket of Jacob’s hip and dislocated it as they wrestled.

Genesis 32:26

Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”

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 distress comes upon him?

Job 27:10

Will he delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?

Psalms 55:16

But I call to God, and the LORD saves me.

Psalms 55:17

Morning, noon, and night, I cry out in distress, and He hears my voice.

Psalms 65:2

O You who listen to prayer, all people will come to You.

Psalms 86:3

Be merciful to me, O Lord, for I call to You all day long.

Psalms 102:17

He will turn toward the prayer of the destitute; He will not despise their prayer.

Psalms 142:5

I cry to You, O LORD: “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

Psalms 142:6

Listen to my cry, for I am brought quite low. Rescue me from my pursuers, for they are too strong for me.

Psalms 142:7

Free my soul from prison, that I may praise Your name. The righteous will gather around me because of Your goodness to me.

Jeremiah 29:12

Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

Romans 12:12

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.

Ephesians 6:18

Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints.

Philippians 4:6

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

Colossians 4:2

Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful,

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you greetings. He is always wrestling in prayer for you, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in the full will of God.

1 Thessalonians 5:17

Pray without ceasing.

Psalms 27:13

Still I am certain to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

Jonah 2:7

As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD. My prayer went up to You, to Your holy temple.

Galatians 6:9

Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

Hebrews 12:3

Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

Hebrews 12:4

In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

Hebrews 12:5

And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.