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 in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
• Phil 4:6Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
• 1 Tim 2:1I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
• Jude 1:20But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
• Rom 8:26–27Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
• Mark 14:38Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
• Luke 21:36Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
• Luke 18:1–8And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
• Matt 26:41Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
• Dan 9:20And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;
• Eph 1:16Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
• Ps 6:9The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.
• Luke 22:46And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
• Rom 12:12Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
• Mark 13:33Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
• Acts 1:14These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
• Heb 5:7Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
• Phil 1:4Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,
• Ps 4:1Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
• 1 Kgs 8:52That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee.
• 1 Pet 4:7But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
• 2 Tim 1:3I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;
• Acts 12:5Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.
• 1 Kgs 8:54And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.
• 1 Kgs 9:3And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
• Matt 15:25–28Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.
• Gen 32:24–28And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
• Dan 6:10Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
• 1 Kgs 8:59And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:
• Job 27:10Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
• Luke 11:5–8And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves;
• Isa 26:16LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
• Hos 12:4Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us;
• Zech 12:10And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
• Acts 6:4But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
• Eph 6:19And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,
• Acts 10:2A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
• Phlm 1:5Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints;
• Esth 4:8Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people.

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