praying for each other
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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,
1And so I beg you, first of all, to make supplications, prayers, petitions, and thanksgivings for all men,
6Be anxious about nothing. But in all things, with prayer and supplication, with acts of thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God.
44But I say to you: Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you. And pray for those who persecute and slander you.
9Then, too, from the day when we first heard it, we have not ceased praying for you and requesting that you be filled with the knowledge of his will, with all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
9Therefore, it is better for two to be together, than for one to be alone. For they have the advantage of their companionship. 10If one falls, he shall be supported by the other. Woe to one who is alone. For when he falls, he has no one to lift him up. 11And if two are sleeping, they warm one another. How can one person alone be warmed? 12And if a man can prevail against one, two may withstand him, and a threefold cord is broken with difficulty.
16Rejoice always. 17Pray without ceasing. 18Give thanks in everything. For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for all of you.
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.
19Again I say to you, that if two of those among you have agreed on earth, about anything whatsoever that they have requested, it shall be done for them by my Father, who is in heaven.
16Therefore, let us go forth with confidence toward the throne of grace, so that we may obtain mercy, and find grace, in a helpful time.
30Therefore, I beg you, brothers, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Holy Spirit, that you assist me with your prayers to God on my behalf,