Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

And he spake a parable unto them {to this end}, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;

By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; {consecrated: or, new made}

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which {am but} dust and ashes:

Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.