pray without ceasing
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12in hope, rejoicing; in tribulation, enduring; in prayer, ever-willing;
16Rejoice always. 17Pray without ceasing. 18Give thanks in everything. For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for all of you.
21And departing from there, Jesus withdrew into the areas of Tyre and Sidon. 22And behold, a woman of Canaan, going out from those parts, cried out, saying to him: “Take pity on me, Lord, Son of David. My daughter is badly afflicted by a demon.” 23He did not say a word to her. And his disciples, drawing near, petitioned him, saying: “Dismiss her, for she is crying out after us.” 24And responding, he said, “I was not sent except to the sheep who have fallen away from the house of Israel.” 25But she approached and adored him, saying, “Lord, help me.” 26And responding, he said, “It is not good to take the bread of the children and cast it to the dogs.”
17Pray without ceasing.
6Be anxious about nothing. But in all things, with prayer and supplication, with acts of thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God.
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,
18If I have seen iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not heed me.
2Pursue prayer. Be watchful in prayer with acts of thanksgiving.
6But you, when you pray, enter into your room, and having shut the door, pray to your Father in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will repay you.
22And all things whatsoever that you shall ask for in prayer: believing, you shall receive.”
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.
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,