But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.

He said to them, The Scripture says, My house shall be called a house of prayer; but you have made it a den of robbers.

And whatever you ask for in prayer, having faith and [really] believing, you will receive.

They do all their works to be seen of men; for they make wide their phylacteries (small cases enclosing certain Scripture passages, worn during prayer on the left arm and forehead) and make long their fringes [worn by all male Israelites, according to the command].

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you swallow up widows’ houses and for a pretense to cover it up make long prayers; therefore you will receive the greater condemnation and the heavier sentence.