Luke 2:37 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁷ then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped there with fasting and prayer night and day.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁷ and she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁷ And as a widow even for eighty-four years. She did not go out from the temple enclosure, but was worshiping night and day with fasting and prayer.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁷ and she had been a widow even unto fourscore and four years), who departed not from the temple, worshipping with fastings and supplications night and day.

Common English Bible

³⁷ She was now an 84-year-old widow. She never left the temple area but worshipped God with fasting and prayer night and day.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁷ And then she was a widow, even to her eighty-fourth year. And without departing from the temple, she was a servant to fasting and prayer, night and day.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁷ And she was a widow until fourscore and four years; who departed not from the temple, by fastings and prayers serving night and day.

Luke 2:37 Cross References

Psalm 22:2

O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer; and by night but find no rest.

Psalm 23:6

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord my whole life long.

Psalm 27:4

One thing I asked of the Lord; this I seek: to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple.

Psalm 84:10

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than live in the tents of wickedness.

Psalm 84:4

Happy are those who live in your house, ever singing your praise. Selah

Psalm 92:13

They are planted in the house of the Lord; they flourish in the courts of our God.

Exodus 38:8

He made the basin of bronze with its stand of bronze, from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

Luke 5:33

Then they said to him, “John’s disciples, like the disciples of the Pharisees, frequently fast and pray, but your disciples eat and drink.”

Acts 13:3

Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off.

Acts 14:23

And after they had appointed elders for them in each church, with prayer and fasting they entrusted them to the Lord in whom they had come to believe.

Acts 26:7

a promise that our twelve tribes hope to attain, as they earnestly worship day and night. It is for this hope, Your Excellency, that I am accused by Jews!

1 Timothy 5:5

The real widow, left alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day,

Revelation 3:12

If you conquer, I will make you a pillar in the temple of my God; you will never go out of it. I will write on you the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem that comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.

Revelation 7:15

For this reason they are before the throne of God and worship him day and night within his temple, and the one who is seated on the throne will shelter them.

1 Samuel 2:2

There is no Holy One like the Lord, no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God.