THE PRAYERS OF PAUL
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Romans
Romans
Romans 1:8–10 (LSB)
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because your faith is being proclaimed throughout the whole world.
For God, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of His Son, is my witness as to how without ceasing I make mention of you,
always in my prayers earnestly asking, if perhaps now at last by the will of God I may succeed in coming to you.
Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God for them is for their salvation.
rejoicing in hope, persevering in affliction, being devoted to prayer,
Now may the God of perseverance and encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus,
so that with one accord you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Now I urge you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,
that I may be rescued from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may prove acceptable to the saints;
so that I may come to you in joy by the will of God and find rest in your company.
Now may the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians
I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus,
that in everything you were enriched in Him, in all word and all knowledge,
even as the witness about Christ was confirmed in you,
so that you are not lacking in any gift, eagerly awaiting the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who will also confirm you to the end, beyond reproach in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
God is faithful, through whom you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.
2 Corinthians
2 Corinthians
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
For just as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.
But whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is working in your perseverance in the same sufferings which we also suffer.
And our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that as you are sharers of our sufferings, so also you are sharers of our comfort.
But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ, and manifests through us the aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place.
For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing;
to the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is sufficient for these things?
For the ministry of this service is not only fully supplying the needs of the saints, but is also abounding through many thanksgivings to God.
Because of the proven character given by this ministry, they will glorify God for your obedience to your confession of the gospel of Christ and for the generosity of your fellowship toward them and toward all,
while they also, by prayer on your behalf, long for you because of the surpassing grace of God on you.
Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!
Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself!
Concerning this I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might leave me.
And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.
Now we pray to God that you do no wrong, not that we ourselves may appear approved, but that you may do what is right, even though we may appear unapproved.
For we can do nothing against the truth, but only for the truth.
For we rejoice when we ourselves are weak but you are strong. This we also pray for, that you be restored.
Galatians
Galatians
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,
who gave Himself for our sins so that He might rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.
Ephesians
Ephesians
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him in love,
by predestining us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,
to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He graciously bestowed on us in the Beloved.
In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our transgressions, according to the riches of His grace
which He caused to abound to us in all wisdom and insight,
making known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Him
for an administration of the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth in Him.
In Him, we also have been made an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will,
to the end that we who first have hoped in Christ would be to the praise of His glory.
In Him, you also, after listening to the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise,
who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, unto the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory.
For this reason I too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which exists among you and your love for all the saints,
do not cease giving thanks for you, while making mention of you in my prayers:
that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the full knowledge of Him,
so that you—the eyes of your heart having been enlightened—will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,
and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe according to the working of the might of His strength,
which He worked in Christ, by raising Him from the dead and seating Him at His right hand in the heavenly places,
far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.
And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church,
which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,
from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,
that He would give you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man,
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being firmly rooted and grounded in love,
may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.
Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or understand, according to the power that works within us,
to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.
praying at all times with all prayer and petition in the Spirit, and to this end, being on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints,
as well as on my behalf, that words may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel—
for which I am an ambassador in chains—so that in proclaiming it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
Philippians
Philippians
I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,
always offering prayer with joy in my every prayer for you all,
because of your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now.
For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.
And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in full knowledge and all discernment,
so that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and without fault until the day of Christ,
having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in this I rejoice.
Yes, and I will rejoice,
for I know that this will turn out for my salvation through your prayers and the provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will not be put to shame in anything, but that with all boldness, Christ will even now, as always, be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and petition with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Colossians
Colossians
We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
For this reason also, since the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and multiplying in the full knowledge of God;
being strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously
giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.
Who rescued us from the authority of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son of His love,
in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving;
praying at the same time for us as well, that God will open up to us a door for the word, so that we may speak the mystery of Christ, for which I have also been bound,
that I may make it manifest in the way I ought to speak.
1 Thessalonians
1 Thessalonians
We give thanks to God always for all of you, making mention of you in our prayers;
remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ before our God and Father,
knowing, brothers beloved by God, your election,
for our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full assurance; just as you know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake.
And for this reason we also thank God without ceasing that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also is at work in you who believe.
For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, for you also suffered the same things at the hands of your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews,
who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and do not please God, and are hostile to all men,
hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved; with the result that they always fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them to the utmost.
For what thanks can we render to God for you in return for all the joy with which we rejoice before our God because of you,
as we night and day keep praying most earnestly that we may see your face, and may complete what is lacking in your faith?
Now may our God and Father Himself and Jesus our Lord direct our way to you,
and may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another, and for all people, just as we also do for you,
so that He may strengthen your hearts blameless in holiness, before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints.
Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely, and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Faithful is He who calls you, who also will do it.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
2 Thessalonians
2 Thessalonians
We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is only fitting, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of each one of you all toward one another increases all the more,
To this end also we pray for you always, that our God will count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill all your good pleasure for goodness and the work of faith with power,
so that the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
But we should always give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you as the first fruits for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.
It was for this He called you through our gospel, that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace,
encourage your hearts and strengthen them in every good work and word.
Finally, brothers, pray for us that the word of the Lord will spread rapidly and be glorified, just as it did also with you;
and that we will be rescued from perverse and evil men, for not all have faith.
But the Lord is faithful, who will strengthen and guard you from the evil one.
And we have confidence in the Lord about you, that you are doing and will continue to do what we command.
And may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the steadfastness of Christ.
Now may the Lord of peace Himself continually give you peace in every circumstance. The Lord be with you all!
1 Timothy
I am grateful to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because He regarded me faithful, putting me into service,
Now to the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
First of all, then, I exhort that petitions and prayers, requests and thanksgivings, be made for all men,
2 Timothy
I am grateful to God, whom I serve with a clear conscience the way my forefathers did, as I unceasingly remember you in my prayers night and day,
longing to see you, having remembered your tears, so that I may be filled with joy,
being reminded of the unhypocritical faith within you, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am convinced that it is in you as well.
For this reason I remind you to kindle afresh the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and self-discipline.
The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains,
but when he was in Rome, he eagerly searched for me and found me—
the Lord grant to him to find mercy from the Lord on that day—and you know very well what services he rendered at Ephesus.
The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with all of you.
Titus
All who are with me greet you. Greet those who love us in the faith.
Grace be with you all.
Philemon
I thank my God, always making mention of you in my prayers,
because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints;
and I pray that the fellowship of your faith may become effective through the full knowledge of every good thing which is in you for the sake of Christ.
For I have come to have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
