Acts 8:24

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Simon answered, “Pray for me to the Lord, that nothing of what you have said may happen to me.”

Cross References

Genesis 20:17

Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children.

Genesis 20:7

Now then, return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you and all that are yours.”

1 Kings 13:6

The king said to the man of God, “Entreat now the favor of the Lord your God, and pray for me, so that my hand may be restored to me.” So the man of God entreated the Lord, and the king’s hand was restored to him and became as it was before.

Ezra 6:10

so that they may offer pleasing sacrifices to the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and his children.

Ezra 8:23

So we fasted and petitioned our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.

Job 42:8

Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering, and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has done.”

Exodus 10:17

Do forgive my sin this once, and pray to the Lord your God that at the least he remove this deadly thing from me.”

Exodus 12:32

Take your flocks and your herds, as you said, and be gone. And ask a blessing for me, too!”

Exodus 8:8

Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and said, “Pray to the Lord to take away the frogs from me and my people, and I will let the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.”

Jeremiah 37:3

King Zedekiah sent Jehucal son of Shelemiah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, “Please pray for us to the Lord our God.”

Jeremiah 42:2

the prophet Jeremiah and said, “Be good enough to listen to our plea, and pray to the Lord your God for us—for all this remnant. For there are only a few of us left out of many, as your eyes can see.

Numbers 21:7

The people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord to take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.

James 5:16

Therefore confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective.

1 Samuel 12:19

All the people said to Samuel, “Pray to the Lord your God for your servants, so that we may not die, for we have added to all our sins the evil of demanding a king for ourselves.”

1 Samuel 12:23

Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, and I will instruct you in the good and the right way.