yet if they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captors, saying, 'We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,'

and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me."

When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him.

The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

"Seek the LORD while he may be found; call upon him while he is near;

Before they call I will answer; while they are yet speaking I will hear.

And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the LORD has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the LORD calls.

And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.'

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.

To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:

Shew

As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things.

Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,

Mighty

The friendship of the LORD is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.

I will give you the treasures of darkness and the hoards in secret places, that you may know that it is I, the LORD, the God of Israel, who call you by your name.

"You have heard; now see all this; and will you not declare it? From this time forth I announce to you new things, hidden things that you have not known.

"For the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.

This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet:"I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter what has been hidden since the foundation of the world."

But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.'

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Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.

Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.