Then he goes and takes along with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and entering in they dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Thus it shall also be for this wicked generation."

And Elijah cried aloud and said, Alas, O Lord, the witness of the widow with whom I sojourn, You have brought tragedy [for her] in slaying her son.

And he breathed on the child three times, and called on the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, let the soul of this child return to him, I pray.

And I set my face toward the Lord God, to seek [Him] diligently by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth.

So He said to them, "This kind can come out by nothing but prayer and fasting."

Now as they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Now separate to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work which I have called them."

Then, fasting and praying, and laying their hands on them, they sent them away.

And having chosen elders for them in every church, [and] having prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

Do not deprive one another, except by mutual agreement, [and that] for a season, so that you may devote yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, lest Satan tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

in labor and hardship, in sleepless nights often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness--

through every prayer and petition, praying in every season in the Spirit, being watchful to this same thing with all perseverance and petition concerning all the saints--