Ephesians 6:18

All of this is to be carried on in constant, Spirit-led prayer, watchful and persevering, including intercession for all of God's people. It matters because the armor is worn in dependence on God, expressed through prayer.

Cross-references · 40

• 1 Th 5:17Pray without ceasing.
• Col 4:2Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;
• Phil 4:6In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
• 1 Tim 2:1I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men:
• Jude 1:20But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
• Rom 8:26–27In 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.
• Mark 14:38Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
• Luke 21:36Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
• Luke 18:1–8He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,
• Matt 26:41Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
• Dan 9:20While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God;
• Eph 1:16don’t cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,
• Ps 6:9Yahweh has heard my supplication. Yahweh accepts my prayer.
• Luke 22:46and said to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”
• Rom 12:12rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;
• Mark 13:33Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is.
• Acts 1:14All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
• Heb 5:7He, 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,
• Phil 1:4always in every request of mine on behalf of you all making my requests with joy,
• Ps 4:1For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm by David. Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.
• 1 Kgs 8:52that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant, and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you.
• 1 Pet 4:7But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
• 2 Tim 1:3I 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
• Acts 12:5Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.
• 1 Kgs 8:54It was so, that when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before Yahweh’s altar, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread out toward heaven.
• 1 Kgs 9:3Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
• Matt 15:25–28But she came and worshiped him, saying, “Lord, help me.”
• Gen 32:24–28Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.
• Dan 6:10When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.
• 1 Kgs 8:59Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God day and night, that he may maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as every day requires;
• Job 27:10Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?
• Luke 11:5–8He said to them, “Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight, and tell him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,
• Isa 26:16Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.
• Hos 12:4Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us,
• Zech 12:10I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
• Acts 6:4But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word.”
• Eph 6:19on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,
• Acts 10:2a 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.
• Phlm 1:5hearing of your love, and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints;
• Esth 4:8He also gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Shushan to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to urge her to go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, for her people.

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