EPHESIANS 6.17-18
and receive the helmet of the salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, through all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and in this, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the holy ones—
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PHILIPPIANS 3.8-9
yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom I suffered loss of all things, and count them to be refuse, that I may gain Christ, and be found in Him, not having my righteousness, which [is] of law, but that which [is] through faith from Christ—the righteousness that is of God by faith,
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LUKE 11.5-8
And He said to them, “Who of you will have a friend, and will go on to him at midnight, and may say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves, seeing a friend of mine came out of the way to me, and I have not what I will set before him, and he from within answering may say, Do not give me trouble, the door has already been shut, and my children are with me in the bed, I am not able, having risen, to give to you. I say to you, even if he will not give to him, having risen, because of his being his friend, yet because of his persistence, having risen, he will give him as many as he needs;
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2 CORINTHIANS 4.6-10
because [it is] God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who shined in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God, and not of us, being in tribulation in every [way], but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; at all times carrying around in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body,