'Prayers' in the Bible
They devour widows' property, and as a show make long prayers. These men will receive a more severe punishment."
They devour widows' property, and as a show make long prayers. They will receive a more severe punishment."
Staring at him and becoming greatly afraid, Cornelius replied, "What is it, Lord?" The angel said to him, "Your prayers and your acts of charity have gone up as a memorial before God.
and I always ask in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God.
And in their prayers on your behalf they long for you because of the extraordinary grace God has shown to you.
I do not cease to give thanks for you when I remember you in my prayers.
for I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
We thank God always for all of you as we mention you constantly in our prayers,
First of all, then, I urge that requests, prayers, intercessions, and thanks be offered on behalf of all people,
But the widow who is truly in need, and completely on her own, has set her hope on God and continues in her pleas and prayers night and day.
I am thankful to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, when I remember you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day.
I always thank my God as I remember you in my prayers,
At the same time also, prepare a place for me to stay, for I hope that through your prayers I will be given back to you.
Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as the weaker partners and show them honor as fellow heirs of the grace of life. In this way nothing will hinder your prayers.
and when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders threw themselves to the ground before the Lamb. Each of them had a harp and golden bowls full of incense (which are the prayers of the saints).
Another angel holding a golden censer came and was stationed at the altar. A large amount of incense was given to him to offer up, with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar that is before the throne.
The smoke coming from the incense, along with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God from the angel's hand.