Acts 12:5 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁵ Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ So Peter was kept in prison, but fervent prayer for him was persistently made to God by the church (assembly).

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Peter therefore was kept in the prison: but prayer was made earnestly of the church unto God for him.

Common English Bible

⁵ While Peter was held in prison, the church offered earnest prayer to God for him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ And so Peter was detained in prison. But prayers were being made without ceasing, by the Church, to God on his behalf.

Acts 12:5 Cross References

1 Corinthians 12:26

And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honored, all the members rejoice with it.

James 5:16

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

1 Thessalonians 5:17

Pray without ceasing.

2 Corinthians 1:11

ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.

Matthew 18:19

Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.

Hebrews 13:3

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

Acts 12:12

And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many were gathered together praying.

Luke 18:1

And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;

Acts 12:4

And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.

Acts 12:6

And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.