11 Bible Verses about Importunity, Towards God
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She who is truly a widow, and left alone, hopes in God, and abides in prayers and supplication night and day;
Ask, and it shall be given unto you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one asking receives; and the one seeking finds; and to the one knocking it shall be opened.
And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given unto you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one asking receives; and the one seeking finds; and to the one knocking it shall be opened.
And He spoke a parable to them that it behooves them to pray always, and not to faint;
saying, There was a certain judge in a certain city, fearing not God, and regarding not man. And there was a widow in that city; and she continued to come to him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary. And he was not willing for a time: but after these things he said in himself, Though I fear not God nor regard man,read more.
yet because this widow causes me trouble, I will avenge her, lest coming forever she may smite me in the face. But the Lord said, I fear what the unjust judge says. And shall not God avenge His elect, crying to Him day and night, and He is long-suffering over them? I say unto you, that He will avenge them speedily. Moreover the Son of man having come, will He then find faith upon the earth?
praying with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit in every place, and watching unto this same thing in all perseverance and prayer for all the saints,
For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how I unceasingly make mention of you always in my prayer; praying, if by any means I shall be prospered in the will of God to come to you.
Epaphras, who is from you, the servant of Jesus Christ, always agonizing in your behalf in his prayers, in order that you may stand perfect even having been fully carried away in all the will of God, salutes you.
We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention in our prayers; incessantly remembering your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before God even our Father;
I give thanks to God, whom I serve from my ancestors with a clean conscience, as I have incessant mention of you in my prayers, night and day