I say to you, Though he will not rise and give him anything, because he is his friend, yet because of his insistence he will rise and give him as many as he needs.
And he from within shall answer and say, Do not bother me: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give you anything?
Now I plead with you, fellow believers, for the Lord Jesus Christ’s sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, greets you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she distressed him constantly: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.