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Luke 18:1
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Luke 18:1
1AND he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
1¶ And he spake a parable vnto them, to this ende, that men ought *alwayes to pray, and not to faint,
- 1.Thes. 5.17.
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Luke 18:1
A comparison or earthly account used to set forth a truth.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The last or concluding part; a termination, limit, purpose, or result. As a verb, to cease or bring to a close.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Should or is bound to; expresses duty, fitness, or necessity.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Always; continually, regularly, or throughout the time stated.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Weak or weary in strength or resolve.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study2Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
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Open the full verse study12Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
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Open the full verse study17Pray without ceasing.
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Open the full verse study6Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
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Open the full verse study18Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
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Open the full verse study16As for me, I will call upon God; and the Lord shall save me.
17Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
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Open the full verse study12Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
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Open the full verse study36Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
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Open the full verse study9And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
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Open the full verse study3Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.
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Open the full verse study17He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
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Open the full verse study5And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves;
6For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him?
7And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.
8I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
9And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
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Open the full verse study1THEREFORE seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
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Open the full verse study5I cried unto thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.
6Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
7Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.
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Open the full verse study12Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
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Open the full verse study24¶ And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
25And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
26And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
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Open the full verse study7When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
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Open the full verse study2O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.
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Open the full verse study13I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
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Open the full verse study9¶ And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the Lord which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
10I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.
11Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.
12And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
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Open the full verse study3For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
4Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
5And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
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Open the full verse study8For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
9Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?
10Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
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