Luke 2:37

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and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped night and day with fasting and prayer.

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  • 1 Tim 5:5 : 5 The widow who is truly alone and desolate has placed her hope in God and continues in prayers and petitions night and day.
  • Acts 14:23 : 23 They appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
  • Acts 26:7 : 7 This is the promise that our twelve tribes hope to attain as they earnestly serve God night and day. It is for this hope, King Agrippa, that I am accused by the Jews.
  • Acts 13:3 : 3 Then, after fasting and praying, they laid their hands on them and sent them off.
  • Rev 3:12 : 12 The one who conquers I will make a pillar in the temple of my God, and they will never go out again. I will write on them the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem that comes down from heaven from my God, and my new name.
  • Rev 7:15 : 15 For this reason, they are before the throne of God, and they serve him day and night in his temple. The one who sits on the throne will spread his shelter over them.
  • Exod 38:8 : 8 He made the bronze basin and its stand of bronze from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
  • 1 Sam 2:2 : 2 'There is no one holy like the LORD, for there is no one besides You; there is no Rock like our God.'
  • Ps 22:2 : 2 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Far from saving me, from the words of my groaning.
  • Ps 23:6 : 6 Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
  • Ps 27:4 : 4 One thing I have asked from the Lord; this I will seek: to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek Him in His temple.
  • Ps 84:4 : 4 Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young—at Your altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God.
  • Ps 84:10 : 10 Behold our shield, O God, and look with favor upon Your anointed.
  • Ps 92:13 : 13 The righteous will flourish like a palm tree; they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon.
  • Ps 135:1-2 : 1 Praise the LORD! Praise the name of the LORD; praise Him, you servants of the LORD! 2 You who stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the house of our God!
  • Luke 5:33 : 33 Then they said to Him, "Why do John's disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but Yours eat and drink?"

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