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Prayer

In Scripture

Where the words themselves appear in the World English Bible. Read each in its chapter before drawing a conclusion from it.

“pray” — 294 verses. See all

  • Genesis 20:7

    Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours.”

  • Genesis 20:17

    Abraham prayed to God. So God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.

  • Exodus 8:9

    Moses said to Pharaoh, “I give you the honor of setting the time that I should pray for you, and for your servants, and for your people, that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses, and remain in the river only.”

  • Exodus 8:28

    Pharaoh said, “I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness, only you shall not go very far away. Pray for me.”

  • Exodus 8:29

    Moses said, “Behold, I am going out from you. I will pray to the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow; only don’t let Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.”

  • Exodus 8:30

    Moses went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to the LORD.

From a reference work

M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, 3rd edition (1897). Public domain; text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. A nineteenth-century Protestant reference: its dates, archaeology and judgements reflect the scholarship of its time and are not Imago Dei's editorial position.

Prayer

Is converse with God; the intercourse of the soul with God, not in contemplation or meditation, but in direct address to him. Prayer may be oral or mental, occasional or constant, ejaculatory or formal. It is a "beseeching the Lord" (Ex. 32:11); "pouring out the soul before the Lord" (1 Sam. 1:15); "praying and crying to heaven" (2 Chr. 32:20); "seeking unto God and making supplication" (Job 8:5); "drawing near to God" (Ps. 73:28); "bowing the knees" (Eph. 3:14). Prayer presupposes a belief in the personality of God, his ability and willingness to hold intercourse with us, his personal control of all things and of all his creatures and all their actions. Acceptable prayer must be sincere (…

Passages it cites: Exodus 32:11 · 1 Samuel 1:15 · 2 Chronicles 32:20 · Job 8:5 · Psalms 73:28 · Ephesians 3:14 · Hebrews 10:22 · Matthew 7:7 · Mark 11:24 · John 14:13 · Ephesians 2:18 · Colossians 3:17

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