Genesis 32:24

Jacob Wrestles With God

²³ After he sent them across, he also sent across all that he owned. ²⁴ Then Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. ²⁵ The man saw that he was not able to overcome Jacob. He gave him a blow in the hollow part of his thigh, so that his leg was damaged.

Jacob

Genesis 30:8

Rachel said: I have struggled hard with my sister, and I have won! So she named the boy Naphtali.

Genesis 32:28

The man said: Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel (He Struggles With God), because you have struggled with God and with men and you have won.

Genesis 32:30

Jacob named that place Peniel (Face of God), because he said: I have seen God face to face, yet my life was saved.

Genesis 48:16

May the being who rescued me from all evil bless these boys! May they be called by my name and by the names of my grandfather Abraham and my father Isaac. May they have many children on the earth.

Exodus 14:27

Moses held out his hand over the sea. At daybreak the water returned to its normal level. The Egyptians tried to escape from the water. But Jehovah threw them into the sea.

Song of Songs 2:17

(To Her Beloved) Until the daybreaks and the shadows flee away, turn my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag upon the mountains of Bether.

Isaiah 32:2

Each of them will be like a shelter from the wind and a place to hide from storms. They will be like streams flowing in a desert, like the shadow of a giant rock in a barren land.

Hosea 12:3-5

Their ancestor Jacob held on to his brother's heel while the two of them were in their mother's womb. When Jacob became a man, he struggled with God.

Luke 13:24

Strive to go in through the narrow door. Many people will try to go in and will not be able.

Luke 22:44

(possible spurious text) He was in agony and earnestly prayed. His sweat became, as it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground.

Romans 8:26-27

Likewise the Spirit also helps our weaknesses. We do not know what we should pray for, as we should. The Spirit [of God] makes intercession with groaning that cannot be spoken.

Romans 15:30

Now I beg you, brothers, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me.

1 Corinthians 15:47

The first man is from the earth, earthy: the second man is from heaven.

Ephesians 6:12

Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in heavenly places.

Ephesians 6:18

With prayer and supplication pray at all times in the Spirit. Watch with all perseverance and supplication for all the holy ones.

Colossians 2:1

Let me tell you how hard I worked for you, for the people in Laodicea, and for all others who do not personally know me.

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.

Hebrews 5:7

In the days of his life on earth, when he [Christ] offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to the one who was able to save him out of death, and was heard because of his godly reverence. (Galatians 1:1) (Psalm 69:13)