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But I tell you, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you!
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“When you pray, don’t be like the hypocrites, who love to pray standing in the synagogues and on street corners, so that people can see them. Yes! I tell you, they have their reward already!
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But you, when you pray, go into your room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. Your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
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“And when you pray, don’t babble on and on like the pagans, who think God will hear them better if they talk a lot.
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You, therefore, pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven! May your Name be kept holy.
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Pray that the Lord of the harvest will send out workers to gather in his harvest.”
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After he had sent the crowds away, he went up into the hills by himself to pray. Night came on, and he was there alone.
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Then children were brought to him so that he might lay his hands on them and pray for them, but the talmidim rebuked the people bringing them.
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He said to them, “It has been written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it into a den of robbers!”
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In other words, you will receive everything you ask for in prayer, no matter what it is, provided you have trust.”
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Pray that you will not have to escape in winter or on Shabbat.
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Then Yeshua went with his talmidim to a place called Gat-Sh’manim and said to them, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.”
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Going on a little farther, he fell on his face, praying, “My Father, if possible, let this cup pass from me! Yet — not what I want, but what you want!”
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Stay awake, and pray that you will not be put to the test — the spirit indeed is eager, but human nature is weak.”
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A second time he went off and prayed. “My Father, if this cup cannot pass away unless I drink it, let what you want be done.”
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Leaving them again, he went off and prayed a third time, saying the same words.