Colossians 4:2

Further Advice For The Christian Life

¹ Masters, deal justly and equitably with your slaves, knowing that you too have a Master in Heaven. ² Be earnest and unwearied in prayer, being on the alert in it and in your giving of thanks. ³ And pray at the same time for us also, that God may open for us a door for preaching, for us to tell the truth concerning Christ for the sake of which I am even a prisoner.

Give Thanks

Luke 18:1

He also taught them by a parable that they must always pray and never lose heart.

Ephesians 6:18

Pray with unceasing prayer and entreaty on every fitting occasion in the Spirit, and be always on the alert to seize opportunities for doing so, with unwearied persistence and entreaty on behalf of all God's people,

Philippians 4:6

Do not be over-anxious about anything, but by prayer and earnest pleading, together with thanksgiving, let your request be unreservedly made known in the presence of God.

Colossians 2:7

having the roots of your being firmly planted in Him, and continually building yourselves up in Him, and always being increasingly confirmed in the faith as you were taught it, and abounding in it with thanksgiving.

Colossians 3:15

and let the peace which Christ gives settle all questionings in your hearts, to which peace indeed you were called as belonging to His one Body; and be thankful.

Matthew 26:41

Keep awake, and pray that you may not enter into temptation: the spirit is right willing, but the body is frail."

Mark 13:33

Take care, be on the alert, and pray; for you do not know when it will happen.

Luke 21:36

But beware of slumbering; and every moment pray that you may be fully strengthened to escape from all these coming evils, and to take your stand in the presence of the Son of Man."

Romans 12:12

full of joyful hope, patient under persecution, earnest and persistent in prayer.

Colossians 1:9

For this reason we also, from the day we first received these tidings, have never ceased to pray for you and to entreat that you may be filled with a clear knowledge of His will accompanied by thorough wisdom and discernment in spiritual things;

Colossians 3:17

And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, and let it be through Him that you give thanks to God the Father.

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, sends greetings to you, always wrestling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand firm--Christians of ripe character and of clear conviction as to everything which is God's will.

1 Thessalonians 5:17-18

Be unceasing in prayer.

1 Peter 4:7

But the end of all things is now close at hand: therefore be sober-minded and temperate, so that you may give yourselves to prayer.