Luke 11:10
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10 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
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James 4:3
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3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask (A)wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
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James 5:11
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11 Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of (A)the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen (B)the purpose of the Lord, how (C)the Lord is compassionate and merciful.
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Lamentations 3:54-58
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55 (C)“I called on your name, O Lord,
from the depths of the pit;
56 (D)you heard my plea, ‘Do not close
your ear to my cry for help!’
57 (E)You came near when I called on you;
you said, (F)‘Do not fear!’
Psalm 31:22
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22 I had said in my (A)alarm,[a]
“I am (B)cut off from (C)your sight.”
But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy
when I cried to you for help.
Footnotes
- Psalm 31:22 Or in my haste
Luke 18:1
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The Parable of the Persistent Widow
18 And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought (A)always to pray and not (B)lose heart.
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Jonah 2:2-8
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2 saying,
(A)“I called out to the Lord, out of my distress,
and he answered me;
(B)out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
(C)and you heard my voice.
3 (D)For you cast me into the deep,
into the heart of the seas,
and the flood surrounded me;
(E)all your waves and your billows
passed over me.
4 (F)Then I said, ‘I am driven away
from your sight;
(G)yet I shall again look
upon your holy temple.’
5 (H)The waters closed in over me (I)to take my life;
the deep surrounded me;
weeds were wrapped about my head
6 at the roots of the mountains.
I went down to the land
whose bars closed upon me forever;
yet you brought up my life from the pit,
O Lord my God.
7 When my life was fainting away,
I remembered the Lord,
(J)and my prayer came to you,
into your holy temple.
8 (K)Those who pay regard to vain idols
(L)forsake their hope of steadfast love.
Lamentations 3:18
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18 (A)so I say, “My endurance has perished;
so has my hope from the Lord.”
Lamentations 3:8
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8 though (A)I call and cry for help,
he shuts out my prayer;
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