37 and then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She did not leave the temple grounds, serving night and day with (A)fasts and prayers.

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37 and then was a widow until she was eighty-four.[a](A) She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 2:37 Or then had been a widow for eighty-four years.

A Call to Prayer

First of all, then, I urge that (A)requests, prayers, intercession, and thanksgiving be made in behalf of all people,

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Instructions on Worship

I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers,(A) intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people—

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(A)I thank God, whom I (B)serve with a (C)clear conscience [a]the way my forefathers did, (D)as I constantly remember you in my [b]prayers night and day,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Timothy 1:3 Lit from my forefathers
  2. 2 Timothy 1:3 Or petitions

Thanksgiving

I thank God,(A) whom I serve, as my ancestors did, with a clear conscience,(B) as night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers.(C)

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