2 Chronicles 33:13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
13 He prayed to him, and God received his entreaty, heard his plea, and restored him again to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord indeed was God.(A)
Read full chapter
Ezra 8:23
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
23 So we fasted and petitioned our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.(A)
Read full chapter
1 Chronicles 5:20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
20 and when they received help against them, the Hagrites and all who were with them were given into their hands, for they cried to God in the battle, and he granted their entreaty because they trusted in him.(A)
Read full chapter
Daniel 4:25
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
25 You shall be driven away from human society, and your dwelling shall be with the wild animals. You shall be made to eat grass like oxen, you shall be bathed with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over you, until you have learned that the Most High has sovereignty over the kingdom of mortals and gives it to whom he will.(A)
Read full chapter
Psalm 86:5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving,
abounding in steadfast love to all who call on you.(A)
Hebrews 8:11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
11 And they shall not teach one another
or say to each other,[a] ‘Know the Lord,’
for they shall all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest.(A)
Footnotes
- 8.11 Or teach each one their fellow-citizen and each one their sibling, saying
John 17:3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.(A)
Read full chapter
John 4:10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”(A)
Read full chapter
Luke 23:42-43
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
42 Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come in[a] your kingdom.” 43 He replied, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.”(A)
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 23.42 Other ancient authorities read into
Matthew 7:7-8
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Ask, Search, Knock
7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.(A) 8 For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.(B)
Read full chapter
Matthew 6:33
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
33 But seek first the kingdom of God[a] and his[b] righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.(A)
Read full chapter
Daniel 4:34-35
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Nebuchadnezzar Praises God
34 When that period was over, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me.
I blessed the Most High
and praised and honored the one who lives forever.
For his sovereignty is an everlasting sovereignty,
and his kingdom endures from generation to generation.(A)
35 All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing,
and he does what he wills with the host of heaven
and the inhabitants of the earth.
There is no one who can stay his hand
or say to him, “What have you done?”(B)
Jeremiah 29:12-13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
12 Then when you call upon me and come and pray to me, I will hear you.(A) 13 When you search for me, you will find me; if you seek me with all your heart,(B)
Read full chapter
Jeremiah 24:7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
7 I will give them a heart to know that I am the Lord, and they will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with their whole heart.(A)
Read full chapter
Isaiah 55:6-9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call upon him while he is near;(A)
7 let the wicked forsake their way
and the unrighteous their thoughts;
let them return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.(B)
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.(C)
Proverbs 21:1
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
21 The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord;
he turns it wherever he will.
Proverbs 16:7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
7 When the ways of people please the Lord,
he causes even their enemies to be at peace with them.(A)
Psalm 46:10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
10 “Be still, and know that I am God!
I am exalted among the nations;
I am exalted in the earth.”(A)
Psalm 32:3-5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 While I kept silent, my body wasted away
through my groaning all day long.(A)
4 For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;
my strength was dried up[a] as by the heat of summer. Selah(B)
5 Then I acknowledged my sin to you,
and I did not hide my iniquity;
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”
and you forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah(C)
Footnotes
- 32.4 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Psalm 9:16
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
16 The Lord has made himself known; he has executed judgment;
the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion. Selah(A)
Job 33:16-30
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
16 then he opens their ears
and terrifies them with warnings,(A)
17 that he may turn them aside from their deeds
and keep them from pride,
18 to spare their souls from the Pit,
their lives from traversing the River.
19 They are also chastened with pain upon their beds
and with continual strife in their bones,(B)
20 so that their lives loathe bread
and their appetites dainty food.(C)
21 Their flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen,
and their bones, once invisible, now stick out.(D)
22 Their souls draw near the Pit
and their lives to those who bring death.(E)
23 Then, if there should be for one of them an angel,
a mediator, one of a thousand,
one who declares a person upright,(F)
24 and he is gracious to that person and says,
‘Deliver him from going down into the Pit;
I have found a ransom;(G)
25 let his flesh become fresh with youth;
let him return to the days of his youthful vigor,’(H)
26 then he prays to God and is accepted by him;
he comes into his presence with joy,
and God[a] repays him for his righteousness.(I)
27 That person sings to others and says,
‘I sinned and perverted what was right,
and it was not paid back to me.(J)
28 He has redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit,
and my life shall see the light.’(K)
29 “God indeed does all these things,
twice, three times, with mortals,(L)
30 to bring back their souls from the Pit,
so that they may see the light of life.[b](M)
Job 22:27
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
27 You will pray to him, and he will hear you,
and you will pay your vows.(A)
Job 22:23
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
23 If you return to the Almighty,[a] you will be restored,
if you remove unrighteousness from your tents,(A)
Footnotes
- 22.23 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
Ezra 7:27
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
27 Blessed be the Lord, the God of our ancestors, who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king to glorify the house of the Lord in Jerusalem(A)
Read full chapter
Deuteronomy 29:6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 you have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine or strong drink—so that you may know that I am the Lord your God.(A)
Read full chapterNew Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.