² Give yourselves to prayer at all times, keeping watch with praise;

¹⁷ Keep on with your prayers.

¹⁸ In everything give praise: for this is the purpose of God in Christ Jesus for you.

⁶ Have no cares; but in everything with prayer and praise put your requests before God.

¹⁸ With prayers and deep desires, making requests at all times in the Spirit, and keeping watch, with strong purpose, in prayer for all the saints,

¹ And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;

¹² Being glad in hope, quiet in trouble, at all times given to prayer,

³³ Take care, keep watch with prayer: for you are not certain when the time will be.

⁷ But the end of all things is near: so be serious in your behaviour and keep on the watch with prayer;

⁷ Rooted and based together in him, strong in the faith which the teaching gave you, giving praise to God at all times.

⁹ For this reason, we, from the day when we had word of it, keep on in prayer for you, that you may be full of the knowledge of his purpose, with all wisdom and experience of the Spirit,

³⁶ But keep watch at all times with prayer, that you may be strong enough to come through all these things and take your place before the Son of man.

¹⁵ And let the peace of Christ be ruling in your hearts, as it was the purpose of God for you to be one body; and give praise to God at all times.

⁴ Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.

¹² Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you his love, ever taking thought for you in his prayers, that you may be complete and fully certain of all the purpose of God.

¹⁷ And whatever you do, in word or in act, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving praise to God the Father through him.

⁴¹ Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test: the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble.

⁴ For my love they give me back hate; but I have given myself to prayer.

¹⁶ As for me, I will make my prayer to God, and he will be my saviour.

¹⁷ In the evening and in the morning and in the middle of the day I will make my prayer with sounds of grief; and my voice will come to his ears.

⁸ For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul?

⁹ Will his cry come to the ears of God when he is in trouble?

¹⁰ Will he take delight in the Ruler of all, and make his prayer to God at all times?

²³ And as for me, never will I go against the orders of the Lord by giving up my prayers for you: but I will go on teaching you the good and right way.