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Prayers Of The Unrighteous
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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.
He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.
but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
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.
You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed. — read the full passage →
Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.
You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”
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:
This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. — read the full passage →
One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”
Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
In praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.
Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.
Pray without ceasing.
When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men:
for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.
He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;
If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this.
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.
Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,
if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God; — read the full passage →
Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →
But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:
All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”
Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.
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.
Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book. — read the full passage →
If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,
I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.
“In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.
Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. — read the full passage →
But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →
He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come! — read the full passage →
In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.
Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
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.
You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →
You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.
You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →
Rejoice always. — read the full passage →
The last enemy that will be abolished is death.
But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear. — read the full passage →
Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.
that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. — read the full passage →
a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.
that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don’t know.
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →
For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up, — read the full passage →
This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us. — read the full passage →
who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
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,
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice. — read the full passage →
By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively. — read the full passage →
Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.
Won’t God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
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