Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.
And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Pray without ceasing.
Pray without ceasing.
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.