'Devote' in the Bible

But, as for us, we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the delivery of the Message."

(For all the Athenians and their foreign visitors used to devote their whole leisure to telling or hearing about something new.)

Do not refuse one another, unless perhaps it is just for a time and by mutual consent, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer and may then associate again; lest the Adversary begin to tempt you because of your deficiency in self-control.