Acts 6:4

The First Seven Deacons Appointed

³ Therefore, survey, brethren, seven men of you, being witnesses full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom ye shall set over this need. ⁴ And we will persevere in prayer, and the service of the word. ⁵ And the word pleased before all the multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:

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Acts 1:14

All these were persevering unanimously in prayer and supplication, with women, and Mary mother of Jesus, with his brethren.

Acts 2:42

And they were persevering in the teaching of the sent, and in mutual participation, and breaking of bread, and prayers.

Acts 13:2-3

And they serving the Lord, and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Separate to me Barnabas and Saul to the work which I have called them.

Acts 20:19-31

Serving the Lord with all humility, and many tears, and temptations, having happened to me by the insidious plots of the Jews:

Romans 1:9

For my witness is God, whom I serve in my spirit in the good news of his Son, so that continually I make mention of you, always supplicating in my prayers;

Romans 12:6-8

And having gifts different according to the grace given us, whether prophecy, according to the due proportion of faith;

1 Corinthians 9:16

For if I announce the good news, there is no boasting to me: for necessity is laid upon me; and woe is to me, if I announce not the good news!

Ephesians 1:15-17

For this, I also, having heard the faith among you in the Lord Jesus, and love to all the holy,

Ephesians 3:14-21

For this I bend my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Philippians 1:4

Always in all my prayer for you all with joy making prayer,

Philippians 1:9-11

And this I prey, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all intelligence;

Colossians 1:9-13

For this also we, from the day which we heard, ceased not praying for you, and asking that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

Colossians 2:1

For I wish you to know how great contest I have for you, and them in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who of you, greets you, a servant of Christ, always contending for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfected and completed in all the will of God.

Colossians 4:17

And say to Archippus, Look out for the service which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fill it.

1 Timothy 4:13-16

Till I come, hold to reading loud, to entreaty, to doctrine.

2 Timothy 4:2

Proclaim the word; keep fixed seasonably, and unseasonably; refute, censure, beseech, in all longsnffering and teaching.