Colossians 4:2 - Tree of Life Version Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with thanksgiving. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Be earnest and unwearied and steadfast in your prayer [life], being [both] alert and intent in [your praying] with thanksgiving. American Standard Version (1901) Continue stedfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving; Common English Bible Keep on praying and guard your prayers with thanksgiving. Catholic Public Domain Version Pursue prayer. Be watchful in prayer with acts of thanksgiving. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Be instant in prayer; watching in it with thanksgiving: |
Keep watching and praying, so that you won’t enter into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
“Keep on the lookout! Stay alert! For you do not know when the time is.
Then Yeshua told them a parable to show that they should always pray and not be discouraged,
But stay alert at all times, praying that you may have the strength to escape all these things about to happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
All these with one mind were continuing together in prayer—along with the women and Miriam, Yeshua’s mother, and His brothers.
Pray in the Ruach on every occasion, with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, keep alert with perseverance and supplication for all the kedoshim.
Do not be anxious about anything—but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
For this reason also, ever since we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We keep asking God that you might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding—
rooted and built up in Him and established in your faith just as you were taught, overflowing with thankfulness.
Let the shalom of Messiah rule in your hearts—to this shalom you were surely called in one body. Also be thankful.
And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Yeshua, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
Epaphras, who is one of your own, a slave of Messiah Yeshua, greets you. He is always laboring in prayer on your behalf, so you may stand complete and fully assured about everything that is God’s will.
Now the end of all things is near. So be self-controlled and sober-minded for prayer.
It came to pass, as she prayed long before Adonai, that Eli was watching her mouth.
Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Adonai by ceasing to pray for you! Yet I will keep instructing you in the good and straight way.