Matthew 17:21 Cross References - Thomson

²¹ but this kind [of power] goeth not forth, unless by prayer and fasting.

²⁰ Then Elias cried and said, Woe is me! Lord! Here is the witness of the widow with whom I dwell. Thou hast afflicted her in causing her son to die. ²¹ And when he had breathed on the child three times and called on the Lord, he said, Lord, my God, I beseech thee let this child's life be restored to him.

³ Therefore I turned my face to the Lord my God, to seek a prayer and supplication by fasting and sackcloth.

⁴⁵ Then it goeth and bringeth with it seven other spirits worse than itself, and they enter and dwell there. So the last state of that man is worse than the first. Thus also will it be with this wicked generation.

²⁹ And he said to them, This kind [of power*] can go forth by nothing but by prayer and fasting,

² And whilst they were ministering to the Lord, and fasting, the holy spirit said, Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul, for the work to which I have called them. ³ So having fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they dismissed them.

²³ they therefore appointed elders for them in every congregation, and having fasted and prayed, they recommended them to the Lord in whom they believed.

⁵ Withdraw not from each other, unless by mutual consent for a time, that you may devote yourselves to fasting and prayer. Then come together again that satan may not tempt you through your incontinence.

²⁷ In toil and fatigue, in watchings many a time, with hunger and thirst; in fastings many a time, with cold and nakedness.

¹⁸ in every prayer and supplication, always praying with the spirit [being for this purpose in a continual state of watchfulness and prayer] for all the saints