Genesis 20:17

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Genesis 20:17

So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.

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Now therefore restore the man his wife, for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live. And if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou and all that are thine.

And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

So they sent and gathered together all the cardinals of the Philistines and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it not kill me and my people, for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city, and the hand of God had become very heavy there.

that they may offer sacrifices of sweet savours unto the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.

So Eliphaz, the Temanite, and Bildad, the Shuhite, and Zophar, the Naamathite, went, and did according as the LORD commanded them; and the LORD accepted Job.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come; inquire of me concerning my sons and concerning the work of my hands.

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you;

And all things, whatever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.

And all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.

Be anxious for nothing, but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God.

Brethren, pray for us.

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.