Genesis 18:30
30Then he said, “Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Suppose thirty are found there.” He answered, “I will not do it, if I find thirty there.”Judges 6:39
39Then Gideon said to God, a“Let not your anger burn against me; let me speak just once more. Please let me test just once more with the fleece. Please let it be dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground let there be dew.”Proverbs 15:8
8 bThe sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord,but cthe prayer of the upright is acceptable to him.
Isaiah 42:6-7
6“I am the Lord; dI have called you ▼▼The Hebrew for you is singular; four times in this verse
in righteousness;I will take you by the hand and keep you;
I will give you fas a covenant for the people,
ga light for the nations,
7 hto open the eyes that are blind,
to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon,
ifrom the prison those who sit in darkness.
James 5:15-17
15And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And jif he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 16Therefore, kconfess your sins to one another and pray for one another, lthat you may be healed. mThe prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. ▼▼Or The effective prayer of a righteous person has great power
17Elijah was a man owith a nature like ours, and phe prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for qthree years and six months it did not rain on the earth. 1 John 5:15-16
15And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.16If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and rGod ▼
▼Greek he
will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. tThere is sin that leads to death; uI do not say that one should pray for that.
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