Luke 2:37
And she was widowe about foure score and foure yeeres, and went not out of the Temple, but serued God with fastings & prayers, night and day.
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- 1 Tim 5:5 : 5 And shee that is a widowe in deede and left alone, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and praiers night and day.
- Acts 14:23 : 23 And when they had ordeined them Elders by election in euery Church, and prayed, and fasted, they commended them to the Lorde in whome they beleeued.
- Acts 26:7 : 7 Whereunto our twelue tribes instantly seruing God day and night, hope to come: for the which hopes sake, O King Agrippa, I am accused of the Iewes.
- Acts 13:3 : 3 Then fasted they and prayed, and layde their hands on them, and let them goe.
- Rev 3:12 : 12 Him that ouercommeth, will I make a pillar in the Temple of my God, and he shal goe no more out: and I will write vpon him the Name of my God, and the name of the citie of my God, which is the newe Hierusalem, which commeth downe out of heauen from my God, and I will write vpon him my newe Name.
- Rev 7:15 : 15 Therefore are they in the presence of the throne of God, and serue him day and night in his Temple, and he that sitteth on the throne, wil dwell among them.
- Exod 38:8 : 8 Also he made the Lauer of brasse, & the foote of it of brasse of the glasses of the women that did assemble & came together at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation.
- 1 Sam 2:2 : 2 There is none holy as the Lord: yea, there is none besides thee, & there is no god like our God.
- Ps 22:2 : 2 O my God, I crie by day, but thou hearest not, and by night, but haue no audience.
- Ps 23:6 : 6 Doubtlesse kindnesse and mercie shall followe me all the dayes of my life, and I shall remaine a long season in the house of the Lord.
- Ps 27:4 : 4 One thing haue I desired of the Lorde, that I will require, euen that I may dwell in the house of the Lorde all the dayes of my life, to beholde the beautie of the Lorde, and to visite his Temple.
- Ps 84:4 : 4 Blessed are they that dwell in thine house: they will euer praise thee. Selah.
- Ps 84:10 : 10 For a day in thy courtes is better then a thousand other where: I had rather be a doore keeper in the House of my God, then to dwell in the Tabernacles of wickednesse.
- Ps 92:13 : 13 Such as bee planted in the house of the Lord, shall flourish in the courtes of our God.
- Ps 135:1-2 : 1 Praise ye the Lord. Praise the Name of the Lorde: ye seruants of the Lord, praise him. 2 Ye that stande in the House of the Lord, and in the courtes of the House of our God,
- Luke 5:33 : 33 Then they said vnto him, Why do the disciples of Iohn fast often, & pray, & the disciples of the Pharises also, but thine eate and drinke?
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2 And he sawe also a certaine poore widowe which cast in thither two mites:
3 And he sayd, Of a trueth I say vnto you, that this poore widowe hath cast in more then they all.
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10 And she was troubled in her minde, and prayed vnto the Lord, and wept sore:
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12 And as she continued praying before the Lord, Eli marked her mouth.
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75 All the daies of our life, in holinesse and righteousnesse before him.
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7 (And so did he yeere by yeere) and as oft as she went vp to the house of the Lord, thus she vexed her, that she wept and did not eate.
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2 And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God, and went both shee and her housholde and soiourned in the lande of the Philistims seuen yeeres.