New Revised Standard Version
Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with thanksgiving.

Contemporary English Version
Never give up praying. And when you pray, keep alert and be thankful.

New American Bible
Persevere in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Be instant in prayer: watching in it with thanksgiving.

Be instant in prayer: watching in it with thanksgiving.

Continue.

Colossians 4:12 Epaphras saluteth you, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, who is always solicitous for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and full in all the will of God.

Colossians 1:9 Therefore we also, from the day that we heard it, cease not to pray for you and to beg that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding:

1 Samuel 12:23 And far from me be this sin against the Lord, that I should cease to pray for you: and I will teach you the good and right way.

Job 15:4 As much as is in thee, thou hast made void fear, and hast taken away prayers from before God.

Job 27:8-10 For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul? . . .

Psalm 55:16,17 But I have cried to God: and the Lord will save me. . . .

Psalm 109:4 Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I gave myself to prayer.

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Luke 18:1 And he spoke also a parable to them, that we ought always to pray and not to faint,

Romans 12:12 Rejoicing in hope. Patient in tribulation. Instant in prayer.

Ephesians 6:18 By all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the spirit: and in the same watching with all instance and supplication for all the saints:

Philippians 4:6 Be nothing solicitous: but in every thing, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God.

1 Thessalonians 5:17,18 Pray without ceasing. . . .

watch.

Matthew 26:41 Watch ye: and pray that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Mark 13:33 Take ye heed, watch and pray. For ye know not when the time is.

Luke 21:36 Watch ye, therefore, praying at all times, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are to come and to stand before the Son of man.

1 Peter 4:7 But the end of all is at hand. Be prudent therefore and watch in prayers.

thanksgiving.

Colossians 2:7 Rooted and built up in him and confirmed in the faith, as also you have learned: abounding in him in thanksgiving.

Colossians 3:15,17 And let the peace of Christ rejoice in your hearts, wherein also you are called in one body: and be ye thankful. . . .