Verse 17

Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female servants, so they could bear children again.

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  • Jas 5:16 : 16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is very powerful and effective.
  • Phil 4:6 : 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
  • 1 Thess 5:25 : 25 Brothers, pray also for us.
  • Gen 20:7 : 7 Now return the man's wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her, you can be sure that you and all who belong to you will die.'
  • Gen 29:31 : 31 When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb, but Rachel remained barren.
  • 1 Sam 5:11-12 : 11 So they sent word and gathered all the rulers of the Philistines and said, 'Send the Ark of the God of Israel away, let it return to its place so that it will not kill us and our people.' For there was a deadly panic throughout the whole city; the hand of God was very heavy there. 12 The men who did not die were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.
  • Ezra 6:10 : 10 So that they may offer pleasing offerings to the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and his sons.
  • Job 42:9-9 : 9 So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite did as the LORD had instructed them, and the LORD accepted Job's prayer. 10 After Job prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before.
  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
  • Prov 15:29 : 29 The LORD is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous.
  • Isa 45:11 : 11 This is what the LORD, the Holy One of Israel and its Maker, says: ‘Concerning things to come, ask me, and concerning my children and the work of my hands, you command me?’
  • Matt 7:7 : 7 Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
  • Matt 21:22 : 22 If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.'
  • Acts 3:24 : 24 Indeed, all the prophets from Samuel on, as many as have spoken, have foretold these days.