For this cause I say unto you, Do not be careful about your life, what ye should eat and what ye should drink; nor for your body what ye should put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment?

But when they deliver you up, be not careful how or what ye shall speak; for it shall be given to you in that hour what ye shall speak.

And he that is sown among the thorns this is he who hears the word, and the anxious care of this life, and the deceit of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

But Jesus answering said to her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things;

And ye, seek not what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink, and be not in anxiety;

Hast thou been called being a bondman, let it not concern thee; but and if thou canst become free, use it rather.

having cast all your care upon him, for he cares about you.

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Then Jacob was greatly afraid, and was distressed; and he divided the people that were with him, and the sheep and the cattle and the camels, into two troops.

And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before Jehovah.

And David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him; for the soul of all the people was embittered, every man because of his sons and because of his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Jehovah his God.

And because of this, king Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz prayed and cried to heaven.

And when he was in affliction, he besought Jehovah his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

They looked unto him, and were enlightened, and their faces were not confounded.

Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall declare thy praise.

Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray and moan aloud; and he will hear my voice.

Confide in him at all times, ye people; pour out your heart before him: God is our refuge. Selah.

Confide in Jehovah with all thy heart, and lean not unto thine own intelligence;

Commit thy works unto Jehovah, and thy thoughts shall be established.

Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and I will shew thee great and hidden things, which thou knowest not.

Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.

And he spoke also a parable to them to the purport that they should always pray and not faint,

And he said to his disciples, For this cause I say unto you, Be not careful for life, what ye shall eat, nor for the body, what ye shall put on.

praying at all seasons, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching unto this very thing with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints;

Persevere in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving;

pray unceasingly;

But the end of all things is drawn nigh: be sober therefore, and be watchful unto prayers;

But ye, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,

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The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah; but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

My dove, in the clefts of the rock, In the covert of the precipice, Let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; For sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.

Be not ye therefore like them, for your Father knows of what things ye have need before ye beg anything of him.

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And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and his wife and his handmaids, and they bore children.

And if ye say, What shall we eat in the seventh year? behold, we may not sow, nor gather in our produce;

And Hezekiah prayed to Jehovah, saying,