2 Corinthians 12:8

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Pray without ceasing.

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”

Always rejoice.

Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you; for now Yahweh would have established your kingdom on Israel forever.

But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

Also Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, saying, “You also shall not go in there.

But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” Samuel prayed to Yahweh.

Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death; for Samuel mourned for Saul: and Yahweh grieved that he had made Saul king over Israel.

because they turned away from following him, and wouldn’t pay attention to any of his ways,

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?” That is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit.

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is, being interpreted, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit.

“The whole congregation of Yahweh says, ‘What trespass is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away today from following Yahweh, in that you have built yourselves an altar, to rebel today against Yahweh?

When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us.

I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.

All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.

if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.

“But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.

Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord, listen and do. Don’t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.”

They came to a place which was named Gethsemane. He said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I pray.”

yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.’ ”

saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

The priest shall burn as its memorial part of its crushed grain and part of its oil, along with all its frankincense. It is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

He said to them, “I am one hundred twenty years old today. I can no more go out and come in. Yahweh has said to me, ‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’

Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don’t spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ ”

But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, of the cattle, and of the fat calves, and the lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to utterly destroy them; but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

“It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.

My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

but you turned and profaned my name, and every man caused his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at their pleasure, to return. You brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.’ ”

I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

In praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.

He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

He left them again, went away, and prayed a third time, saying the same words.

He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting.”

In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.

They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.

Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.

Jesus wept.

Jesus said these things, then lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;

All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, who works all things in all.

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

The garment, either the warp, or the woof, or whatever thing of skin it is, which you shall wash, if the plague has departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and it will be clean.”

But Yahweh was angry with me because of you, and didn’t listen to me. Yahweh said to me, “That is enough! Speak no more to me of this matter.

Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

“Go and tell David my servant, ‘Yahweh says, “You shall not build me a house to dwell in;

“Behold, God does all these things, twice, yes three times, with a man,

Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don’t observe your law.

God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it.

He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.

those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

Again he went away, and prayed, saying the same words.

I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

Those who led the way rebuked him, that he should be quiet; but he cried out all the more, “You son of David, have mercy on me!”

This was done three times, and all were drawn up again into heaven.

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—