as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the favor shown us in answer to their prayers.
Parallel translations
- WEB you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.
- KJV Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.
- NKJV you also helping together in prayer for us, that thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf for the gift granted to us through many.
- NASB if you also join in helping us through your prayers, so that thanks may be given by many persons in our behalf for the favor granted to us through the prayers of many.
- NLT And you are helping us by praying for us. Then many people will give thanks because God has graciously answered so many prayers for our safety.
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Quick answer
Paul invites the Corinthians to join in praying for him, so that many will give thanks when God answers. He links their intercession to God's deliverance and corporate thanksgiving.
Overview
Paul values the prayers of ordinary believers as a real means God uses in his deliverance. The result he envisions is communal gratitude, as many people thank God for the answered prayers of many. This highlights the interdependence of the church and the way God weaves together prayer, providence, and praise to His glory.
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- Phil 1:19because I know that through your prayers and the provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, my distress will turn out for my deliverance.
- 2 Cor 4:15All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is extending to more and more people may overflow in thanksgiving, to the glory of God.
- Acts 12:5So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was fervently praying to God for him.
- Col 4:3as you pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains.
- 2 Th 3:1Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread quickly and be held in honor, just as it was with you.
- Phlm 1:22In the meantime, prepare a guest room for me, because I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you.
- Heb 13:18Pray for us; we are convinced that we have a clear conscience and desire to live honorably in every way.
- Rom 15:30–32Now I urge you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to join me in my struggle by praying to God for me.
- Jas 5:16–18Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.
- Eph 6:18–19Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints.
- 2 Cor 9:11–12You will be enriched in every way to be generous on every occasion, so that through us your giving will produce thanksgiving to God.
- 2 Cor 9:14And their prayers for you will express their affection for you, because of the surpassing grace God has given you.
- Isa 62:6–7On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD shall take no rest for yourselves,
- 1 Th 5:25Brothers, pray for us as well.
- Isa 37:4Perhaps the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”
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