Luke 18:1

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And he spake also a simile to them, that it behoveth `us' always to pray, and not to faint,

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  • Col 4:2 : 2 In the prayer continue ye, watching in it in thanksgiving;
  • 1 Thess 5:17 : 17 continually pray ye;
  • Rom 12:12 : 12 in the hope rejoicing; in the tribulation enduring; in the prayer persevering;
  • Eph 6:18 : 18 through all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and in regard to this same, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints --
  • Phil 4:6 : 6 for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God;
  • Ps 55:16-17 : 16 I -- to God I call, and Jehovah saveth me. 17 Evening, and morning, and noon, I meditate, and make a noise, and He heareth my voice,
  • Luke 21:36 : 36 watch ye, then, in every season, praying that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.'
  • Luke 11:5-9 : 5 And he said unto them, `Who of you shall have a friend, and shall go on unto him at midnight, and may say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves, 6 seeing a friend of mine came out of the way unto me, and I have not what I shall set before him, 7 and he from within answering may say, Do not give me trouble, already the door hath been shut, and my children with me are in the bed, I am not able, having risen, to give to thee. 8 `I say to you, even if he will not give to him, having risen, because of his being his friend, yet because of his importunity, having risen, he will give him as many as he doth need; 9 and I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;
  • Jer 29:12 : 12 `And ye have called Me, and have gone, and have prayed unto Me, and I have hearkened unto you,
  • Ps 86:3 : 3 Favour me, O Lord, for to Thee I call all the day.
  • Ps 102:17 : 17 He turned unto the prayer of the destitute, And He hath not despised their prayer.
  • Gal 6:9 : 9 and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap -- not desponding;
  • 2 Cor 4:1 : 1 Because of this, having this ministration, according as we did receive kindness, we do not faint,
  • Gen 32:24-26 : 24 And Jacob is left alone, and one wrestleth with him till the ascending of the dawn; 25 and he seeth that he is not able for him, and he cometh against the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh is disjointed in his wrestling with him; 26 and he saith, `Send me away, for the dawn hath ascended:' and he saith, `I send thee not away, except thou hast blessed me.'
  • Job 27:8-9 : 8 For what `is' the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul? 9 His cry doth God hear, When distress cometh on him? 10 On the Mighty doth he delight himself? Call God at all times?
  • Ps 27:13 : 13 I had not believed to look on the goodness of Jehovah In the land of the living!
  • Ps 65:2 : 2 Hearer of prayer, to Thee all flesh cometh.
  • Ps 142:5-7 : 5 I have cried unto thee, O Jehovah, I have said, `Thou `art' my refuge, My portion in the land of the living.' 6 Attend Thou unto my loud cry, For I have become very low, Deliver Thou me from my pursuers, For they have been stronger than I. 7 Bring forth from prison my soul to confess Thy name, The righteous do compass me about, When Thou conferrest benefits upon me!
  • Jonah 2:7 : 7 In the feebleness within me of my soul Jehovah I have remembered, And come in unto Thee doth my prayer, Unto Thy holy temple.
  • Heb 12:3-5 : 3 for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls -- being faint. 4 Not yet unto blood did ye resist -- with the sin striving; 5 and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, `My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him,
  • Col 4:12 : 12 Salute you doth Epaphras, who `is' of you, a servant of Christ, always striving for you in the prayers, that ye may stand perfect and made full in all the will of God,
  • Gen 32:9-9 : 9 And Jacob saith, `God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Jehovah who saith unto me, Turn back to thy land, and to thy kindred, and I do good with thee: 10 I have been unworthy of all the kind acts, and of all the truth which Thou hast done with thy servant -- for, with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I have become two camps. 11 `Deliver me, I pray Thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I am fearing him, less he come and have smitten me -- mother beside sons; 12 and Thou -- Thou hast said, I certainly do good with thee, and have set thy seed as the sand of the sea, which is not numbered because of the multitude.'

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