2 Peter 2:8

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.

Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who don’t have God’s seal on their foreheads.

The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire abated.

Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.

I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.

Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.”

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Pray without ceasing.

and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were twisted like a deceitful bow.

He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people groan.

They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

Yahweh said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, so that anyone finding him would not strike him.

When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours.”

He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread out his hands to Yahweh; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth.

When Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed. When he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.

Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel. He said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!”

Yahweh listened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.

Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or gray-headed. He gave them all into his hand.

Indignation has taken hold on me, because of the wicked who forsake your law.

I look at the faithless with loathing, because they don’t observe your word.

Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?

When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices. When the wicked perish, there is shouting.

When the wicked rise, men hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous thrive.

Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place.

But if you will not hear it, my soul will weep in secret for your pride. My eye will weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh’s flock has been taken captive.

For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished? You will not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of Armies.” ’

‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’

They won’t dwell in Yahweh’s land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.

“They won’t return into the land of Egypt; but the Assyrian will be their king, because they refused to repent.

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Brothers, pray for us.

By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?

“If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?”

saying, “Don’t harm the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the bondservants of our God on their foreheads!”

They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two door posts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it.

The king answered the man of God, “Now intercede for the favor of Yahweh your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again.” The man of God interceded with Yahweh, and the king’s hand was restored to him again, and became as it was before.

Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before God’s house, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very bitterly.

For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush out with waters.

Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!

and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our supplication be presented before you, and pray for us to Yahweh your God, even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes see us;

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will eat me up.”

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.

For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two door posts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.

Yahweh said to Moses, “I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”

I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.

As she continued praying before Yahweh, Eli saw her mouth.

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

Like a muddied spring and a polluted well, so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

“You shall say this word to them: “ ‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.

Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief. Don’t let the your eyes rest.

My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Yahweh said to him, “Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”

For, behold, they have gone away from destruction. Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents.

My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won’t exalt them.

Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment.

that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.

There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.

My zeal wears me out, because my enemies ignore your words.

When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.

Kill utterly the old man, the young man, the virgin, little children and women; but don’t come near any man on whom is the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.” Then they began at the old men who were before the house.

They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.