| Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes: peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for the lack of five? And he said, if I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it. |
| Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. – Pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you. |
| I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. … Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word. – Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. |
| The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. |
