Luke 17:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the twelve said to the Lord, Make our faith greater.

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  • Mark 9:24 : 24 Straight away the father of the child gave a cry, saying, I have faith; make my feeble faith stronger.
  • Heb 12:2 : 2 Having our eyes fixed on Jesus, the guide and end of our faith, who went through the pains of the cross, not caring for the shame, because of the joy which was before him, and who has now taken his place at the right hand of God's seat of power.
  • 2 Thess 1:3 : 3 It is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, because of the great increase of your faith, and the wealth of your love for one another;
  • Mark 6:30 : 30 And the twelve came together to Jesus; and they gave him an account of all the things they had done, and all they had been teaching.
  • 1 Pet 1:22-23 : 22 And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart: 23 Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.
  • Luke 7:13 : 13 And when the Lord saw her, he had pity on her and said to her, Be not sad.
  • 2 Cor 12:8-9 : 8 And about this thing I made request to the Lord three times that it might be taken away from me. 9 And he said to me, My grace is enough for you, for my power is made complete in what is feeble. Most gladly, then, will I take pride in my feeble body, so that the power of Christ may be on me. 10 So I take pleasure in being feeble, in unkind words, in needs, in cruel attacks, in troubles, on account of Christ: for when I am feeble, then am I strong.
  • Phil 4:13 : 13 I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength.

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    6 And the Lord said, If your faith was only as great as a grain of mustard seed, you might say to this tree, Be rooted up and planted in the sea; and it would be done.

    7 But which of you, having a servant who is ploughing or keeping sheep, will say to him, when he comes in from the field, Come now and be seated and have a meal,

  • Luke 17:3-4
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    3 Give attention to yourselves: if your brother does wrong, say a sharp word to him; and if he has sorrow for his sin, let him have forgiveness.

    4 And if he does you wrong seven times in a day, and seven times comes to you and says, I have regret for what I have done; let him have forgiveness.

  • 22 And Jesus, answering, said to them, Have God's faith.

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    19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, Why were we not able to send it out?

    20 And he says to them, Because of your little faith: for truly I say to you, If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, Be moved from this place to that; and it will be moved; and nothing will be impossible to you.

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  • 40 And he said to them, Why are you full of fear? have you still no faith?

  • 20 And seeing their faith he said, Man, you have forgiveness for your sins.

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    21 Then Peter came and said to him, Lord, what number of times may my brother do wrong against me, and I give him forgiveness? till seven times?

    22 Jesus says to him, I say not to you, Till seven times; but, Till seventy times seven.

  • 33 They say to him, Lord, that our eyes may be open.

  • 32 But I have made prayer for you, that your faith may not go from you: and when you are turned again, make your brothers strong.

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    21 And Jesus in answer said to them, Truly I say to you, If you have faith, without doubting, not only may you do what has been done to the fig-tree, but even if you say to this mountain, Be taken up and put into the sea, it will be done.

    22 And all things, whatever you make request for in prayer, having faith, you will get.

  • Luke 11:1-4
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    1 And it came about that he was in prayer in a certain place, and when he came to an end, one of his disciples said to him, Lord, will you give us teaching about prayer, as John did to his disciples?

    2 And he said to them, When you say your prayers, say, Father, may your name be kept holy and your kingdom come.

    3 Give us every day bread for our needs.

    4 May we have forgiveness for our sins, as we make free all those who are in debt to us. And let us not be put to the test.

  • 15 And by the prayer of faith the man who is ill will be made well, and he will be lifted up by the Lord, and for any sin which he has done he will have forgiveness.

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    11 Give us this day bread for our needs.

    12 And make us free of our debts, as we have made those free who are in debt to us.

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    24 For this reason I say to you, Whatever you make a request for in prayer, have faith that it has been given to you, and you will have it.

    25 And whenever you make a prayer, let there be forgiveness in your hearts, if you have anything against anyone; so that you may have forgiveness for your sins from your Father who is in heaven.

  • 5 And he put the question, How much bread have you? And they said, Seven cakes.

  • 26 And he said to them, Why are you full of fear, O you of little faith? Then he got up and gave orders to the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.

  • 33 And the disciples say to him, How may we get enough bread in a waste place, to give food to such a number of people?

  • 5 And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to him, Son, you have forgiveness for your sins.

  • 7 And the word of God was increasing in power; and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem became very great, and a great number of priests were in agreement with the faith.

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    35 And there came to him James and John, the sons of Zebedee, saying to him, Master, will you give us whatever may be our request?

    36 And he said to them, What would you have me do for you?

  • 19 And he said to him, Get up, and go on your way; your faith has made you well.

  • 17 And they say to him, We have here but five cakes of bread and two fishes.

  • 21 And he said to them, Is it still not clear to you?

  • 8 And Jesus, seeing it, said, O you of little faith, why are you reasoning among yourselves, because you have no bread?

  • 14 For if you let men have forgiveness for their sins, you will have forgiveness from your Father in heaven.

  • 13 But he said, Give them food yourselves. And they said, We have only five cakes of bread and two fishes, if we do not go and get food for all these people.

  • 10 Night and day requesting God again and again that we may see your face and make your faith complete.

  • 15 Then Peter said to him, Make the story clear to us.

  • 17 So now, may my prayer come before you, and let the power of the Lord be great, as you said:

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    41 What would you have me do for you? And he said, Lord, that I may be able to see again.

    42 And Jesus said, See again: your faith has made you well.

  • 9 And his disciples put questions to him about the point of the story.

  • 29 Then he put his hand on their eyes, saying, As your faith is, let it be done to you.

  • 4 And when his talk was ended, he said to Simon, Go out into deep water, and let down your nets for fish.

  • 5 So the churches were made strong in the faith and were increased in number every day.

  • 13 Said, in loud voices, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.

  • 31 And straight away Jesus put out his hand and took a grip of him, and said to him, O man of little faith, why were you in doubt?

  • 14 And when they came to the people, a man went down on his knees to him, saying,