Acts 6:4

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

Pray without ceasing.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

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

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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

Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

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

On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.

Always rejoice.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.

If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,

But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to 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.

Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,

He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

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.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

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

When they had come down from the high place into the city, he talked with Saul on the housetop.

Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, to dedicate it to him, to burn before him incense of sweet spices, for the continual show bread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Yahweh our God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel.

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.

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

Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

Following Paul and us, she cried out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!”

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.

Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.

But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.

But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on your behalf,

For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

to the beloved Apphia, to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the assembly in your house:

Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you,

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

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.

Didn’t I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? Didn’t I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

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

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

Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you.”

He delivers and rescues. He works signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.”

those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam,

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

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

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit

having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear is in me.

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

In all things be showing yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, be showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

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.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, good; but if you don’t worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. Who is that god that will deliver you out of my hands?”

For nothing spoken by God is impossible.”

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it.

When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?”

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

Now on the next day as they were on their journey, and got close to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about noon.

As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”

But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you;

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

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

For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.

always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy,

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

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.

Tell Archippus, “Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfill it.”

Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.

Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.

Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

After he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into the mountain by himself to pray. When evening had come, he was there alone.

Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven.

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

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