Bible Verses about “intercessory prayer”

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].”

“Confess [your] faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”

“Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.”

“Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.”

“And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:”

“¶ Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.”

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

“And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;”

“Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.”

“Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;”

“‹For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.›”

“‹If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.›”

“Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:”

“¶ Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.”

“¶ I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, [and] giving of thanks, be made for all men;”

“Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.”

“And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.”

“‹Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.›”

“¶ ‹Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.›”

“‹And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.›”

“‹Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.›”

“‹And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.›”

“Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.”

“¶ I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, [which] shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,”

“‹That they all may be one; as thou, Father,› [art] ‹in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.›”

“‹And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:›”

“‹I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.›”

“‹I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.›”

“¶ ‹Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;›”

“¶ And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.”

“¶ ‹And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give› [it] ‹you.›”

“‹As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.›”

“‹I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.›”

“‹And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare› [it]: ‹that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.›”

“‹They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.›”

“‹And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.›”

“‹While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.›”

“¶ ‹Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.›”

“‹O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.›”

“‹I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.›”

“‹I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.›”

“¶ ‹And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we› [are].”

“‹And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.›”

“But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,”

“¶ And he saw that [there was] no man, and wondered that [there was] no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.”

“¶ These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, ‹Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:›”

“‹As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.›”

“¶ ‹I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.›”

“‹Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.›”

“‹For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received› [them], ‹and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.›”