Acts 8:24

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And Simon, answering, said, Make prayer for me to the Lord, so that these things which you have said may not come on me.

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  • Exod 8:8 : 8 Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said, Make prayer to the Lord that he will take away these frogs from me and my people; and I will let the people go and make their offering to the Lord.
  • Num 21:7 : 7 Then the people came to Moses and said, We have done wrong in crying out against the Lord and against you: make prayer to the Lord to take away the snakes from us. So Moses made prayer for the people.
  • Jas 5:16 : 16 So then, make a statement of your sins to one another, and say prayers for one another so that you may be made well. The prayer of a good man is full of power in its working.
  • Exod 10:17 : 17 Let me now have forgiveness for my sin this time only, and make prayer to the Lord your God that he will take away from me this death only.
  • Exod 12:32 : 32 And take your flocks and your herds as you have said, and be gone; and give me your blessing.
  • Gen 20:7 : 7 So now, give the man back his wife, for he is a prophet, and let him say a prayer for you, so your life may be safe: but if you do not give her back, be certain that death will come to you and all your house.
  • 1 Kgs 13:6 : 6 Then the king made answer and said to the man of God, Make a prayer now for the grace of the Lord your God, and for me, that my hand may be made well. And in answer to the prayer of the man of God, the king's hand was made well again, as it was before.
  • Ezra 6:10 : 10 So that they may make offerings of a sweet smell to the God of heaven, with prayers for the life of the king and of his sons.
  • Ezra 8:23 : 23 So we went without food, requesting our God for this: and his ear was open to our prayer.
  • Job 42:8 : 8 And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
  • Gen 20:17 : 17 Then Abraham made prayer to God, and God made Abimelech well again, and his wife and his women-servants, so that they had children.
  • 1 Sam 12:19 : 19 And all the people said to Samuel, Make prayer for us to the Lord your God so that death may not overtake us: for in addition to all our sins we have done this evil, in desiring a king.
  • 1 Sam 12:23 : 23 And as for me, never will I go against the orders of the Lord by giving up my prayers for you: but I will go on teaching you the good and right way.

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