pray

¹⁷Pray without ceasing.

³Cry out to me and I will heed you. And I will announce to you great things, things that are certain, though you do not know them.

⁶Be anxious about nothing. But in all things, with prayer and supplication, with acts of thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God.

¹⁶Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be saved. For the unremitting prayer of a just person prevails over many things.

¹⁸Through every kind of prayer and supplication, pray at all times in spirit, and so be vigilant with every kind of earnest supplication, for all the saints,

²⁴For this reason, I say to you, all things whatsoever that you ask for when praying: believe that you will receive them, and they will happen for you.

⁸Therefore, I want men to pray in every place, lifting up pure hands, without anger or dissension.

⁹Therefore, you shall pray in this way: Our Father, who is in heaven: May your name be kept holy. ¹⁰May your kingdom come. May your will be done, as in heaven, so also on earth. ¹¹Give us this day our life-sustaining bread. ¹²And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors. ¹³And lead us not into temptation. But free us from evil. Amen.

³You ask and you do not receive, because you ask badly, so that you may use it toward your own desires.

¹³Is any of you sad? Let him pray. Is he even-tempered? Let him sing psalms.

⁵But if anyone among you is in need of wisdom, let him petition God, who gives abundantly to all without reproach, and it shall be given to him.

²²and whatever we shall request of him, we shall receive from him. For we keep his commandments, and we do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

⁷If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, then you may ask for whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.

⁴¹Be vigilant and pray, so that you may not enter into temptation. Indeed, the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

¹¹Seek the Lord and his virtue. Seek his face always.

¹⁸And he prayed again. And the heavens gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

¹⁴and if my people, over whom my name has been invoked, being converted, will have petitioned me and sought my face, and will have done penance for their wicked ways, then I will heed them from heaven, and I will forgive their sins, and I will heal their land.

¹Now he also told them a parable, that we should continually pray and not cease,

²⁶And similarly, the Spirit also helps our weakness. For we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself asks on our behalf with ineffable sighing. ²⁷And he who examines hearts knows what the Spirit seeks, because he asks on behalf of the saints in accordance with God.

⁷Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.