He then told them a parable on the need for them to pray always and not become discouraged:

Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

For which also we pray always about you, so that our God will make you worthy of the calling, and will fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power.

Again, I observed this on the earth: the race is not always won by the swiftest, the battle is not always won by the strongest; prosperity does not always belong to those who are the wisest, wealth does not always belong to those who are the most discerning, nor does success always come to those with the most knowledge -- for time and chance may overcome them all.

I always pray with joy in my every prayer for all of you

For ye have the poor always with you, but me ye have not always.

for ye have the poor always with you, and whenever ye would ye can do them good; but me ye have not always.

for ye have the poor always with you, but me ye have not always.

always slow to expose, always eager to believe the best, always hopeful, always patient.

Jesus answered him, I spake with freedom of speech to the world: I always taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, where the Jews were always come together; and I spake nothing in secret.

It is always an honourable thing to be courted in an honourable cause; always, and not only when I am with you, my children--

[I always pray] that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may grant you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation [that gives you a deep and personal and intimate insight] into the true knowledge of Him [for we know the Father through the Son].

could my covenant with my servant David and my covenant with the Levites ever be broken. So David will by all means always have a descendant to occupy his throne as king and the Levites will by all means always have priests who will minister before me.

"The aged aren't always wise, nor do the elderly always understand justice.

Love is always patient; love is always kind; love is never envious or arrogant with pride. Nor is she conceited,

Animals torn by wild beasts I never brought to you; I always absorbed the loss myself. You always made me pay for every missing animal, whether it was taken by day or at night.

I thank my God always making mention always of thee in my prayers,

And a slave does not remain in the home always; but a son remains always.

Religious, and fearing God with all his house, and doing many alms to the people, and praying God always.

He is always generous, always lending,
and his children are a blessing.

Therefore, He is always able to save those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.

Let your eyes always look toward this Temple night and day, toward the location where you have said "My name will reside there.' Listen to the prayer that your servant prays in this direction.

Let your eyes always look toward this Temple day and night, toward the location where you have said you would place your name. Listen to the prayer that your servant prays in this direction.

For these are murmurers, always complaining. They always go where their passions lead, and their mouth speaks great swelling words, while they pay court to men for the sake of the advantage they can get.

never slack in earnestness, always on fire with the Spirit, always serving the Lord,

indeed, if we live, we always live in relation to the Lord, and if we die, we always die in relation to the Lord. So whether we live or die we belong to the Lord.

But with Him it is always "Yes," for, as many as the promises of God may be, through Him they are always "Yes." This is why our "Amen" through Him is for the glory of God when spoken by us.

always being persecuted, but not deserted; always getting a knockdown, but never a knockout;

Therefore, my beloved brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord [always doing your best and doing more than is needed], being continually aware that your labor [even to the point of exhaustion] in the Lord is not futile nor wasted [it is never without purpose].

As for you, let what you were told at the first be always in your thoughts. If, then, what you were told at the first is always in your thoughts, you yourselves will maintain your union both with the Son and with the Father.

For I am always glad whenever I am weak, but you are strong. For this also I am praying, for your perfect reformation.

and always be speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Keep on praying and praising the Lord with all your heart;

Every man who prays or prophesies [i.e., speaks in a public assembly, since prophecy was always for the benefit of others] with his [physical] head covered [Note: The Greek word here denotes "something hanging down" and could refer to long hair or a cloth shawl], shows disrespect for his head [i.e., Christ].

Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, sends you his greeting. He is a servant of Christ Jesus, and is always most earnest in your behalf in his prayers, praying that you may stand firm, with a matured faith and with a sure conviction of all that is in accordance with God's will.

And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen for myself to put my name there.

For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit would fail before me, and the souls which I have made.

But Jehovah would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he had promised to give to him always a lamp, and to his sons.

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Jehovah; but I hate him, for he prophesies no good concerning me, but always evil: it is Micah the son of Imlah. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

And the crowd crying out began to beg that he would do to them as he had always done.

because he slew me not from the womb. Or would that my mother had been my grave, and her womb always great with me!

Jesus therefore says to them, My time is not yet come, but your time is always ready.

I loathe it; I shall not live always: let me alone, for my days are a breath.

And he that has sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, because I do always the things that are pleasing to him.

but I knew that thou always hearest me; but on account of the crowd who stand around I have said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.

O stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers, ye also.

His ways always succeed; thy judgments are far above out of his sight; as for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.

we receive it always and everywhere, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness.

always beseeching at my prayers, if any way now at least I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.

I thank my God always about you, in respect of the grace of God given to you in Christ Jesus;

He will not always chide, neither will he keep his anger for ever.

But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in the Christ, and makes manifest the odour of his knowledge through us in every place.

always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body;

for we who live are always delivered unto death on account of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh;

Therefore we are always confident, and know that while present in the body we are absent from the Lord,

as grieved, but always rejoicing; as poor, but enriching many; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

But God is able to make every gracious gift abound towards you, that, having in every way always all-sufficiency, ye may abound to every good work:

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but in all boldness, as always, now also Christ shall be magnified in my body whether by life or by death.

So that, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much rather in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,

Rejoice in the Lord always: again I will say, Rejoice.

Let your word be always with grace, seasoned with salt, so as to know how ye ought to answer each one.

We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you at our prayers,

forbidding us to speak to the nations that they may be saved, that they may fill up their sins always: but wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.

But Timotheus having just come to us from you, and brought to us the glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have always good remembrance of us, desiring much to see us, even as we also you;

then we, the living who remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and thus we shall be always with the Lord.

See that no one render to any evil for evil, but pursue always what is good towards one another and towards all;

rejoice always;

We ought to thank God always for you, brethren, even as it is meet, because your faith increases exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all towards one another abounds;

But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, that God has chosen you from the beginning to salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

One of themselves, a prophet of their own, has said, Cretans are always liars, evil wild beasts, lazy gluttons.

then I was by him his nursling, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;

Wherefore I was wroth with this generation, and said, They always err in heart; and they have not known my ways;

Happy is the man that feareth always; but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into evil.

but sanctify the Lord the Christ in your hearts, and be always prepared to give an answer to every one that asks you to give an account of the hope that is in you, but with meekness and fear;

Wherefore I will be careful to put you always in mind of these things, although knowing them and established in the present truth.

Let thy garments be always white, and let not thy head lack oil.

And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the place of his father; for Hiram always loved David.

But Jehovah would not destroy Judah, for David his servant's sake, as he had promised him to give him always a lamp for his sons.

For a needy man shall not always be forgotten, nor the expectation of the poor perish forever.

I {beheld (LXX/NT)} LORD always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

that he should still live always, that he should not see corruption.

Behold, these are the wicked, and those who always prosper. They have possessed wealth.

a loving hind and a pleasant doe. Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times, and be thou ravished always with her love.

Bread [grain] is ground, for he will not be always threshing it. And though the wheel of his cart and his horses scatter it, he does not grind it.

I have inclined my heart to perform your statutes always, even unto the end.

So it was always: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, always.

A land which the LORD your God cares for: the eyes of the LORD your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.

And you shall eat before the LORD your God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks; that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.

O that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!

And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.

If you shall keep all these commandments to do them, which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to walk always in his ways; then shall you add three more cities for you, besides these three:

And they said, Stand back, And they said, This one, by himself, hath come in to sojourn and must always be acting the judge, Now, will we do more wickedly to thee, than to them. So they pressed sere upon the man - upon Lot - exceedingly, and drew near to break open the door.

Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?

After many days you shall be visited: in the latter years you shall come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always desolate: but they were brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.

You therefore, and your sons, and your servants, shall till the land for him, and you shall bring in the fruits, that your master's son may have food to eat: but Mephibosheth your master's son shall eat bread always at my table. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

Take heed that you despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven.

Be you mindful always of his covenant; the word which he commanded to a thousand generations;