Luke 2:37 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³⁷ and she had been a widow even for fourscore and four years), which departed not from the temple, worshipping with fastings and supplications 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 in the day-time, but thou answerest not; And in the night season, and am not silent.

Psalm 23:6

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: And I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

Psalm 27:4

One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after; That I may dwell 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 thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Psalm 84:4

Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: They will be still praising thee. Selah

Psalm 92:13

They that are planted in the house of the LORD Shall flourish in the courts of our God.

Exodus 38:8

And he made the laver of brass, and the base thereof of brass, of the mirrors of the serving women which served at the door of the tent of meeting.

Luke 5:33

And they said unto him, The disciples of John fast often, and make supplications; likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink.

Acts 13:3

Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

Acts 14:23

And when they had appointed for them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

Acts 26:7

unto which promise our twelve tribes, earnestly serving God night and day, hope to attain. And concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, O king!

1 Timothy 5:5

Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, hath her hope set on God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.

Revelation 3:12

He that overcometh, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out thence no more: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and mine own new name.

Revelation 7:15

Therefore are they before the throne of God; and they serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall spread his tabernacle over them.

1 Samuel 2:2

There is none holy as the LORD; for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.