Thematic Bible: Importunity, examples of
Thematic Bible
Importunity » Importunity, examples of » Syrophenician woman
And she said, Yes, Lord, yet the little dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity, he will rise and give him as many as he needs.
yet because this widow troubles me, I will do her justice, lest by her continual coming she weary me.
Importunity » Importunity, examples of » The early church
Peter therefore was kept in the prison, and the congregation made prayer without unto God for him.
Confess your faults one to another and pray one for another that ye may be whole. The effectual prayer of the righteous is very powerful.
Importunity » Importunity, examples of » moses
And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water because of all your sins in which ye sinned in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
Importunity » Importunity, examples of » Abraham
And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once; peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.
Importunity » Importunity, examples of » jacob
And he said, Let me go, for the day breaks. And he said, I will not let thee go except thou bless me.
Importunity » Importunity, examples of » Elijah
Elijah was a man subject to passions like unto ours, and he asked in prayer that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.
Importunity » Importunity, examples of » Jesus
And being in agony, he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
Importunity » Importunity, examples of » The nobleman from capernaum
Prayer » Importunity, examples of » Syrophenician woman
And she said, Yes, Lord, yet the little dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity, he will rise and give him as many as he needs.
yet because this widow troubles me, I will do her justice, lest by her continual coming she weary me.
Prayer » Importunity, examples of » The early church
Peter therefore was kept in the prison, and the congregation made prayer without unto God for him.
Confess your faults one to another and pray one for another that ye may be whole. The effectual prayer of the righteous is very powerful.
Prayer » Importunity, examples of » moses
And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water because of all your sins in which ye sinned in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
Prayer » Importunity, examples of » Abraham
And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once; peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.
Prayer » Importunity, examples of » jacob
And he said, Let me go, for the day breaks. And he said, I will not let thee go except thou bless me.
Prayer » Importunity, examples of » Elijah
Elijah was a man subject to passions like unto ours, and he asked in prayer that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.
Prayer » Importunity, examples of » Jesus
And being in agony, he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.