¹⁰ Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?

⁴ Delight thyself also in the Lord: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

²⁶ For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.

²⁷ Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.

¹⁷ Pray without ceasing.

¹⁸ Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

² A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.

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

²¹ Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.

¹⁸ Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.

³⁴ When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.

³⁵ And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.

³⁶ Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.