¹⁷ Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants, and they bore children.

¹⁶ Confess your offenses to one another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The effective, earnest prayer of a righteous man is powerfully effective.

⁶ In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

²⁵ Brothers, pray for us.

²² All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."

⁷ "Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

¹¹ Thus says Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: Ask me of the things that are to come; concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands, command you me.

²⁹ Yahweh is far from the wicked, But he hears the prayer of the righteous.

⁸ The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, But the prayer of the upright is his delight.

⁹ So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did what Yahweh commanded them, and Yahweh accepted Job.

¹⁰ Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.

¹⁰ that they may offer sacrifices of sweet savor to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.

¹¹ They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to its own place, that it not kill us and our people. For there was a deadly confusion throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.

¹² The men who didn't die were struck with the tumors; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

³¹ Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

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."

²⁴ Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days.