¹² Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

³⁰ Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;

18 And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;

⁷ And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?