The Lord's Prayer

“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”

And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”

And he said to them, “This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer.”

And he was teaching them and saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”

Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”

But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.

A Question About Fasting

And they said to him, “The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.”

The Twelve Apostles

In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God.

The Lord's Prayer

Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.”

saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.”

who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”

And when he rose from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping for sorrow,

The High Priestly Prayer

When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you,

All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

The Fellowship of the Believers

And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.

The Lame Beggar Healed

Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.

But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”

And he stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God.

and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your alms have been remembered before God.

So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.

And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

And on the Sabbath day we went outside the gate to the riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down and spoke to the women who had come together.