Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.

Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives when they see your pure and reverent demeanor. Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes, but from the inner disposition of your heart, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in God’s sight. For this is how the holy women of the past adorned themselves. They put their hope in God and were submissive to their husbands, . . .

If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as He was praying, heaven was opened,

You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her

Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”

Now I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman, commits adultery.”

And when you pray, do not babble on like pagans, for they think that by their many words they will be heard.

On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate along the river, where it was customary to find a place of prayer. After sitting down, we spoke to the women who had gathered there.

So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

By now Abraham was old and well along in years, and the LORD had blessed him in every way. So Abraham instructed the chief servant of his household, who managed all he owned, “Place your hand under my thigh, and I will have you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am dwelling, but will go to my country and my kindred to take a wife for my son Isaac.” The servant asked him, “What if the woman is unwilling to follow me to this land? Shall I then take your son back to the land from which you came?” . . .

This is the vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.” Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him. Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted. . . .

Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray at all times and not lose heart: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected men. And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ For a while he refused, but later he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect men, yet because this widow keeps pestering me, I will give her justice. Then she will stop wearing me out with her perpetual requests.’” . . .

But the news about Jesus spread all the more, and great crowds came to hear Him and to be healed of their sicknesses.

Yet He frequently withdrew to the wilderness to pray.

In those days Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and He spent the night in prayer to God.

One day as Jesus was praying in private and the disciples were with Him, He questioned them: “Who do the crowds say I am?”

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up and slipped out to a solitary place to pray.

And do not call anyone on earth your father, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.

But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, brings adultery upon her. And he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. . . .

If any of you has a grievance against another, how dare he go to law before the unrighteous instead of before the saints!

At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was called the Italian Regiment.

While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed.

After Jesus had spoken these words, He went out with His disciples across the Kidron Valley, where they entered a garden.

Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift each of you like wheat.

But you, beloved, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,

There was also a prophetess named Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher, who was well along in years. She had been married for seven years,

After bidding them farewell, He went up on the mountain to pray.

Once again, Jesus spoke to them in parables: “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his servants to call those he had invited to the banquet, but they refused to come. Again, he sent other servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and fattened cattle have been killed, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’ But they paid no attention and went away, one to his field, another to his business. . . .