1 Timothy 2:1

Paul urges that prayers and thanksgiving be made for all people. It establishes prayer for everyone as a first priority of the church.

Cross-references · 22

• 2 Th 1:3We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds;
• Matt 6:9–10Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
• Jas 5:16Confess 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.
• Ps 67:1–4For the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. A Psalm. A song. May God be merciful to us, bless us, and cause his face to shine on us. Selah.
• Eph 5:20giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;
• 1 Tim 2:4who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.
• Titus 3:2to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.
• 2 Tim 2:24The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient,
• Titus 2:11For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
• 1 Tim 5:5Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.
• Phil 1:3I thank my God whenever I remember you,
• 1 Kgs 8:41–43“Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he comes out of a far country for your name’s sake
• Rom 1:8First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
• Heb 6:11We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,
• Acts 17:30The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
• 1 Cor 15:3For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
• Rom 6:17But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.
• 2 Cor 8:6So we urged Titus, that as he had made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace.
• 1 Th 3:12and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,
• Gen 18:23–32Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
• Ps 72:19Blessed be his glorious name forever! Let the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and amen.
• Eph 3:13Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.

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