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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty.

2. (n.) That which is asked for or requested.

3. (n.) A state of being desired or held in such estimation as to be sought after or asked for; demand.

4. (v. t.) To ask for (something); to express desire for; to solicit; as, to request his presence, or a favor.

5. (v. t.) To address with a request; to ask.

Greek

155. aitema -- a request
... a request. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: aitema Phonetic Spelling:
(ah'-ee-tay-mah) Short Definition: a petition, request Definition: a petition ...
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154. aiteo -- to ask, request
... to ask, request. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: aiteo Phonetic Spelling:
(ahee-teh'-o) Short Definition: I ask, request, beg, petition Definition: I ask ...
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2065. erotao -- to ask, question
... to ask, question. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: erotao Phonetic Spelling:
(er-o-tah'-o) Short Definition: I ask, question, request Definition: (a) I ask ...
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1189. deomai -- to want, entreat
... to want, entreat. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: deomai Phonetic Spelling:
(deh'-om-ahee) Short Definition: I request, beg Definition: I want for myself ...
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1162. deesis -- a need, entreaty
... prayer, request, supplication. From deomai; a petition -- prayer, request, supplication.
see GREEK deomai. (deesei) -- 5 Occurrences. (deeseis) -- 3 Occurrences ...
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1906. eperotema -- an inquiry, a demand
... a demand. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: eperotema Phonetic Spelling:
(ep-er-o'-tay-mah) Short Definition: inquiry, request, appeal Definition ...
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1905. eperotao -- to inquire of
... fitting" intensifying 2065 , "inquire, ask") -- properly, ask appropriately (aptly),
done by someone on "preferred footing" who makes a request from a ...
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2172. euchomai -- to pray
... pray, wish Definition: I pray, wish. 2172 (a primitive verb) -- properly,
to wish, offer a request. 2172 ("pray, wish for") is used ...
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1189a. deomai -- to want, entreat
... a form of deo Definition to want, entreat NASB Word Usage ask (1), beg (6), begged
(1), begging (2), beseech (2), implored (1), making request (1), please (1 ...
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2480. ischuo -- to be strong, have power
... supernaturally healed. (, , 2480 ) is the specific (urgent) request of a
divinely-approved person who is energized (by God).". [Here the ...
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Strong's Hebrew

1246. baqqashah -- request, entreaty
... 1245, 1246. baqqashah. 1247 . request, entreaty. Transliteration: baqqashah
Phonetic Spelling: (bak-kaw-shaw') Short Definition: request. ...
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7596. sheelah -- request, thing asked for
... sheelah or shelah. 7597 . request, thing asked for. Transliteration: sheelah or
shelah Phonetic Spelling: (sheh-ay-law') Short Definition: petition. ...
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782. aresheth -- a desire, request
... 781, 782. aresheth. 783 . a desire, request. Transliteration: aresheth
Phonetic Spelling: (ar-eh'-sheth) Short Definition: request. ...
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4862. mishalah -- request, petition
... request, petition. Transliteration: mishalah Phonetic Spelling: (mish-aw-law') Short
Definition: desires. ... From sha'al; a request -- desire, petition. ...
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1156. bea -- to ask, seek
... Word Origin (Aramaic) corresponding to baah Definition to ask, seek NASB Word Usage
asking (1), looked (1), made request (1), makes (1), makes a petition (1 ...
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7592. shaal -- to ask, inquire
... 5), greeted* (1), inquire (6), inquired (18), inquires (1), making (2), medium*
(1), pray (1), questioned (2), questioned particularly (1), request (2), request ...
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1245. baqash -- to seek
... demand (1), desire (1), eager (1), hold* (1), inquired (2), investigated (1), look
(3), looked (1), looking (3), plead (1), pursuit (1), request (2), require (7 ...
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1697. dabar -- speech, word
... 1), questions (3), ration (1), reason (4), records (5), regard (1), render (1),
reply* (1), report (4), reported* (1), reports (4), request (3), required (2 ...
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1159. bau -- a petition
... Word Origin (Aramaic) from bea Definition a petition NASB Word Usage petition (2).
petition. (Aramaic) from b'a'; a request -- petition. see HEBREW b'a'. ...
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7956. Shelah -- a son of Judah
... Shelah. The same as sh'elah (shortened); request; Shelah, the name of a postdiluvian
patriarch and of an Israelite -- Shelah. see HEBREW sh'elah. 7955, 7956. ...
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Library

The Second Request
... I. The Ten Commandments: The Simple Way a Father Should Present Them to His
Household The Second Request. Your Kingdom come.(Matthew 6:10) ...
/.../luther/luthers little instruction book/the second request.htm

The First Request
... I. The Ten Commandments: The Simple Way a Father Should Present Them to His
Household The First Request. May Your name be holy.(Matthew 6:9) ...
/.../luther/luthers little instruction book/the first request.htm

The Request of the Deputies of the Synod of South Holland to their ...
... 4. The request of the Deputies of the Synod of South Holland to their Lordships,
the ,visitors of the University, and the answer which they received. ...
/.../arminius/the works of james arminius vol 1/4 the request of the.htm

The Third Request
... The Third Request. May Your will be accomplished. ... But we pray in this request
that is accomplished among us as well. Q. How does this happen? ...
/.../luther/luthers little instruction book/iv the third request.htm

The Fourth Request
... I. The Ten Commandments: The Simple Way a Father Should Present Them to His Household
V. The Fourth Request. Give us today our daily bread.(Matthew 6:11) ...
/.../luther/luthers little instruction book/v the fourth request.htm

The Sixth Request
... I. The Ten Commandments: The Simple Way a Father Should Present Them to His Household
VII. The Sixth Request. And lead us not into temptation.(Matthew 6:12) ...
/.../luther/luthers little instruction book/vii the sixth request.htm

The Fifth Request
... The Fifth Request. And forgive our guilt, as we forgive those guilty of
sinning against us.(Matthew 6:13) Q. What does this mean? ...
/.../luther/luthers little instruction book/vi the fifth request.htm

The Seventh Request
... VIII. The Seventh Request. But set us free from the Evil One.(Matthew
6:12) Q. What does this mean? A. We pray in this request, as ...
/.../luther/luthers little instruction book/viii the seventh request.htm

With a Heart Full of Anxious Request,
... With a heart full of anxious request,. 8,8,8,8a ... With a heart full of anxious request,.
Which my Father in heaven bestowed,. I wandered alone, and distressed,. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/waring/hymns and meditations/with a heart full of.htm

A Request.
... Homily II. Chapter IV."A Request. "However, I have learned, O Clement,
how that in Alexandria Barnabas perfectly expounded to ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/unknown/the clementine homilies/chapter iv a request.htm

Thesaurus

Request (248 Occurrences)
... 4. (vt) To ask for (something); to express desire for; to solicit; as, to request
his presence, or a favor. 5. (vt) To address with a request; to ask. ...
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Petition (33 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A prayer; a supplication; an imploration; an entreaty; especially, a request
of a solemn or formal kind; a prayer to the Supreme Being, or to a person ...
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Ask (1255 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often
with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed. ...
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Makes (483 Occurrences)
... Matthew 7:8 Because to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who
is searching will get his desire, and to him who gives the sign, the door ...
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Requested (29 Occurrences)
... (imp. & pp) of Request. Multi-Version Concordance ... (WEY). Mark 15:6 Now at the feast
every year he let one prisoner go free at their request. (See NAS NIV). ...
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Yours (226 Occurrences)
... Matthew 18:32 Then his lord sent for him and said, You evil servant; I made you
free of all that debt, because of your request to me: (See NIV). ...
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Whisper (9 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 8:19 And when they say to you, Make request for us to those who have control
of spirits, and to those wise in secret arts, who make hollow bird-like ...
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Mediums (10 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 8:19 And when they say to you, Make request for us to those who have control
of spirits, and to those wise in secret arts, who make hollow bird-like ...
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Bird-like (2 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 8:19 And when they say to you, Make request for us to those who have control
of spirits, and to those wise in secret arts, who make hollow bird-like ...
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Application (2 Occurrences)
... 8. (n.) The act of making request of soliciting; as, an application for
an office; he made application to a court of chancery. 9 ...
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Bible Concordance

Request (248 Occurrences)

Matthew 5:42 Give to him who comes with a request, and keep not your property from him who would for a time make use of it.
(BBE)

Matthew 7:7 Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you:
(BBE)

Matthew 7:8 Because to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire, and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open.
(BBE)

Matthew 7:9 Or which of you, if his son makes a request for bread, will give him a stone?
(BBE)

Matthew 7:10 Or if he makes a request for a fish, will give him a snake?
(BBE)

Matthew 8:5 And when Jesus was come into Capernaum, a certain captain came to him with a request,
(BBE)

Matthew 8:34 And all the town came out to Jesus; and seeing him they made request that he would go away from their part of the country.
(BBE)

Matthew 13:36 When He had dismissed the people and had returned to the house, His disciples came to Him with the request, "Explain to us the parable of the darnel sown in the field."
(WEY)

Matthew 14:7 So he gave her his word with an oath to let her have whatever she might make request for.
(BBE)

Matthew 14:9 The king was grieved, but for the sake of his oaths, and of those who sat at the table with him, he commanded it to be given,
(See NIV)

Matthew 14:36 With the request that they might only put their hands on the edge of his robe: and all those who did so were made well.
(BBE)

Matthew 15:28 Then Jesus answered her, "Woman, great is your faith! Be it done to you even as you desire." And her daughter was healed from that hour.
(See NIV)

Matthew 16:1 And the Pharisees and Sadducees came and, testing him, made a request to him to give them a sign from heaven.
(BBE)

Matthew 18:19 Again, I say to you, that if two of you are in agreement on earth about anything for which they will make a request, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.
(BBE)

Matthew 18:32 Then his lord sent for him and said, You evil servant; I made you free of all that debt, because of your request to me:
(BBE)

Matthew 20:20 Then the mother of the sons of Zabdi came to Him with her sons, and knelt before Him to make a request of Him.
(WEY BBE NAS)

Matthew 21:22 And all things, whatever you make request for in prayer, having faith, you will get.
(BBE)

Matthew 26:53 Does it not seem possible to you that if I make request to my Father he will even now send me an army of angels?
(BBE)

Matthew 27:20 Now the chief priests and those in authority got the people to make request for Barabbas, and for Jesus to be put to death.
(BBE)

Matthew 27:58 This man went in to Pilate, and made a request for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate gave orders for it to be given to him.
(BBE)

Mark 1:40 And a leper came to him and, going down on his knees before him, made a request, saying, If it is your pleasure, you have the power to make me clean.
(BBE)

Mark 3:9 And he made a request to his disciples to have a little boat ready for him, so that he might not be crushed by the people;
(BBE)

Mark 5:17 And they made a request to him to go out of their country.
(BBE)

Mark 6:22 And when the daughter of Herodias herself came in and did a dance, Herod and those who were at table with him were pleased with her; and the king said to the girl, Make a request for anything and I will give it you.
(BBE)

Mark 6:24 And she went out and said to her mother, What is my request to be? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.
(BBE)

Mark 6:25 The girl immediately came in, in haste, to the King and made her request. "My desire is," she said, "that you will give me, here and now, on a dish, the head of John the Baptist."
(WEY NIV)

Mark 7:26 Now the woman was a Greek, a Syro-phoenician by birth: and she made a request to him that he would send the evil spirit out of her daughter.
(BBE)

Mark 7:32 And they came to him with one who had no power of hearing and had trouble in talking; and they made a request to him to put his hands on him.
(BBE)

Mark 7:36 And he gave them orders not to give news of it to anyone; but the more he made this request, so much the more they made it public.
(BBE)

Mark 9:18 And wherever it takes him, it puts him down violently, streaming at the lips and twisted with pain; and his strength goes from him; and I made a request to your disciples to send it out, and they were not able.
(BBE)

Mark 10:35 Then James and John, the sons of Zabdi, came up to Him and said, "Rabbi, we wish you would grant us whatever request we make of you."
(WEY BBE)

Mark 11:24 That is why I tell you, as to whatever you pray and make request for, if you believe that you have received it it shall be yours.
(WEY BBE)

Mark 14:35 And he went forward a little, and falling down on the earth, made request that, if possible, the hour might go from him.
(BBE)

Mark 15:6 Now at the feast every year he let one prisoner go free at their request.
(BBE NAS NIV)

Mark 15:43 There came Joseph of Arimathaea, a responsible man in high honour, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God; and he went in to Pilate without fear, and made a request for the body of Jesus.
(BBE)

Luke 1:13 But the angel said to him, "Don't be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.
(WEB)

Luke 5:3 And he got into one of the boats, the property of Simon, and made a request to him to go a little way out from the land. And being seated he gave the people teaching from the boat.
(BBE)

Luke 6:30 Give to everyone who comes with a request, and if a man takes away your property, make no attempt to get it back again.
(BBE)

Luke 7:4 And they, when they came to Jesus, made their request warmly, saying,
(BBE)

Luke 7:36 And one of the Pharisees made a request that he would take a meal with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house and took his seat at the table.
(BBE NAS)

Luke 8:31 And they made a request to him that he would not give them an order to go away into the deep.
(BBE)

Luke 8:32 Now there was a great herd of pigs in that place, getting food on the mountain: and the evil spirits made a request to him that he would let them go into the pigs, and he let them.
(BBE)

Luke 8:37 And all the people of the country of the Gerasenes made a request to him to go away from them; for they were in great fear: and he got into a boat and went back.
(BBE)

Luke 9:38 And a man from among them, crying out, said, Master, I make a request to you, give a thought to my son, for he is my only child:
(BBE)

Luke 9:40 And I made a request to your disciples to send it out of him, but they were not able to do it.
(BBE)

Luke 11:8 I say to you, Though he will not get up and give to him, because he is his friend, still, if he keeps on making his request, he will get up and give him as much as he has need of.
(BBE)

Luke 11:10 For to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire; and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open.
(BBE)

Luke 11:11 And which of you, being a father, will give a stone to his son, who makes request for bread? or for a fish, will give him a snake?
(BBE)

Luke 11:13 If, then, you who are evil are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who make request to him?
(BBE)

Luke 11:37 Now, while he was talking, a Pharisee made a request that he would come to a meal with him; and he went in and took his seat at the meal.
(BBE)

Luke 14:8 When you get a request to come to a feast, do not take the best seat, for a more important man than you may be coming,
(BBE)

Luke 15:28 But he was angry and would not go in; and his father came out and made a request to him to come in.
(BBE)

Luke 16:27 And he said, Father, it is my request that you will send him to my father's house;
(BBE)

Luke 22:31 Simon, Simon, Satan has made a request to have you, so that he may put you to the test as grain is tested:
(BBE)

Luke 23:24 and Pilate gave judgment for their request being done,
(YLT)

Luke 23:25 And in answer to their request, he let that man go free who had been in prison for acting against the government and causing death, and Jesus he gave up to their pleasure.
(BBE)

Luke 23:52 This man went to Pilate and made a request for the body of Jesus.
(BBE)

John 4:9 The woman of Samaria said to him, Why do you, a Jew, make a request for water to me, a woman of Samaria? She said this because Jews have nothing to do with the people of Samaria.
(BBE)

John 4:40 So when the people came to him they made request to him to be among them for a time, and he was there two days.
(BBE)

John 4:47 When it came to his ears that Jesus had come from Judaea into Galilee, he went to him and made a request that he would come down to his son, who was near to death, and make him well.
(BBE)

John 11:22 But I am certain that, even now, whatever request you make to God, God will give it to you.
(BBE)

John 12:21 They came to Philip, of Bethsaida in Galilee, with the request, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus."
(WEY BBE NIV)

John 14:13 And whatever request you make in my name, that I will do, so that the Father may have glory in the Son.
(BBE)

John 14:14 If you make any request of me in my name, I will do it.
(WEY BBE)

John 14:26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send at my request, will teach you everything, and will bring to your memories all that I have said to you.
(WEY)

John 15:7 If you are in me at all times, and my words are in you, then anything for which you make a request will be done for you.
(BBE)

John 15:16 You did not take me for yourselves, but I took you for myself; and I gave you the work of going about and producing fruit which will be for ever; so that whatever request you make to the Father in my name he may give it to you.
(BBE)

John 16:23 And on that day you will put no questions to me. Truly I say to you, Whatever request you make to the Father, he will give it to you in my name.
(BBE)

John 16:24 Up to now you have made no request in my name: do so, and it will be answered, so that your hearts may be full of joy.
(BBE)

John 16:26 At that time you will make your requests in my name; and I do not promise to ask the Father on your behalf,
(Root in WEY BBE YLT NAS)

John 17:9 "I am making request for them: for the world I do not make any request, but for those whom Thou hast given me. Because they are Thine,
(WEY)

John 17:20 "Nor is it for them alone that I make request. It is also for those who trust in me through their teaching;
(WEY)

John 18:9 He made this request in order that the words He had spoken might be fulfilled, "As for those whom Thou hast given me, I have not lost one."
(WEY)

John 18:39 But every year you make a request to me to let a prisoner go free at the Passover. Is it your desire that I let the King of the Jews go free?
(BBE)

John 19:31 Now it was the day of getting ready for the Passover, and so that the bodies might not be on the cross on the Sabbath (because the day of that Sabbath was a great day), the Jews made a request to Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
(BBE)

John 19:38 After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, made a request to Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate said he might do so. So he went and took away his body.
(BBE)

Acts 3:3 He then, seeing Peter and John going into the Temple, made a request to them.
(BBE)

Acts 3:14 But you would have nothing to do with the Holy and Upright One, and made request for a man of blood to be given to you,
(BBE)

Acts 9:2 And made a request for letters from him to the Synagogues of Damascus, so that if there were any of the Way there, men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.
(BBE)

Acts 9:38 Lud, however, being near Jaffa, the disciples, who had heard that Peter was at Lud, sent two men to him with an urgent request that he would come across to them without delay.
(WEY BBE)

Acts 12:20 Now he was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon: and they came to him, all together, and having made friends with Blastus, the controller of the king's house, they made a request for peace, because their country was dependent on the king's country for its food.
(BBE)

Acts 13:21 Then at their request for a king, God gave them Saul, the son of Kish, a man of the family of Benjamin, who was their king for forty years.
(BBE)

Acts 13:28 And though no cause of death was seen in him, they made a request to Pilate that he might be put to death.
(BBE)

Acts 13:42 And when they went out, they made a request that these words might be said to them again on the Sabbath after.
(BBE)

Acts 16:15 And when she and her family had had baptism, she made a request to us, saying, If it seems to you that I am true to the Lord, come into my house and be my guests. And she made us come.
(BBE)

Acts 21:12 And hearing these things, we and those who were living in that place made request to him not to go to Jerusalem.
(BBE)

Acts 21:39 But Paul said, I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia, which is not an unimportant town: I make a request to you to let me say a word to the people.
(BBE)

Acts 23:18 So he took him to the chief captain and said, Paul, the prisoner, made a request to me to take this young man to you, for he has something to say to you.
(BBE)

Acts 23:20 "The Jews," he replied, "have agreed to request you to bring Paul down to the Sanhedrin to-morrow for the purpose of making yourself more accurately acquainted with the case.
(WEY BBE DBY YLT)

Acts 23:21 Therefore don't yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you."
(See NIV)

Acts 24:4 But, so that I may not make you tired, I make a request to you of your mercy, to give hearing to a short statement.
(BBE NIV)

Acts 25:21 But when Paul made a request that he might be judged by Caesar, I gave orders for him to be kept till I might send him to Caesar.
(BBE)

Acts 25:25 But, in my opinion, there is no cause of death in him, and as he himself has made a request to be judged by Caesar, I have said that I would send him.
(BBE)

Acts 26:3 The more so, because you are expert in all questions to do with the Jews and their ways: so I make my request to you to give me a hearing to the end.
(BBE)

Acts 27:34 So I make request to you to take food; for this is for your salvation: not a hair from the head of any of you will come to destruction.
(BBE)

Romans 1:10 requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.
(Root in WEB KJV ASV WBS NAS)

Romans 12:1 For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him.
(BBE)

Romans 15:30 Now I make request to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you will be working together with me in your prayers to God for me;
(BBE)

1 Corinthians 1:10 Now I make request to you, my brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you will all say the same thing, and that there may be no divisions among you, so that you may be in complete agreement, in the same mind and in the same opinion.
(BBE)

1 Corinthians 1:22 Seeing that the Jews make request for signs, and the Greeks are looking for knowledge:
(BBE)

Subtopics

Lobbying: General Scriptures Concerning

Request

Related Terms

Petition (33 Occurrences)

Ask (1255 Occurrences)

Makes (483 Occurrences)

Requested (29 Occurrences)

Yours (226 Occurrences)

Whisper (9 Occurrences)

Mediums (10 Occurrences)