Luke 2:37
and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn't depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day.
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- 1 Tim 5:5 : 5 Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.
- Acts 14:23 : 23 When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.
- Acts 26:7 : 7 which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!
- Acts 13:3 : 3 Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
- Rev 3:12 : 12 He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.
- Rev 7:15 : 15 Therefore they are before the throne of God, they serve him day and night in his temple. He who sits on the throne will spread his tent over them.
- Exod 38:8 : 8 He made the basin of brass, and its base of brass, out of the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door of the tent of meeting.
- 1 Sam 2:2 : 2 There is none holy as Yahweh; For there is none besides you, Neither is there any rock like our God.
- Ps 22:2 : 2 My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer; In the night season, and am not silent.
- Ps 23:6 : 6 Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, And I shall dwell in Yahweh's house forever.
- Ps 27:4 : 4 One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after, That I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life, To see Yahweh's beauty, And to inquire in his temple.
- Ps 84:4 : 4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are always praising you. Selah.
- Ps 84:10 : 10 For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
- Ps 92:13 : 13 They are planted in Yahweh's house. They will flourish in our God's courts.
- Ps 135:1-2 : 1 Praise Yah! Praise the name of Yahweh! Praise him, you servants of Yahweh, 2 You who stand in the house of Yahweh, In the courts of our God's house.
- Luke 5:33 : 33 They said to him, "Why do John's disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?"
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