Bible verses about "solitude" | Haweis

¹⁵ But when it pleased God, who selected me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, ¹⁶ to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach the glad tidings of him to the nations, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood, ¹⁷ nor went up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went away into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.

³⁵ And very early (the night being far advanced towards morning) rising up, he went forth, and retired into a desert place, and there prayed.

²³ And when he had sent away the multitude, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when evening came, he was there alone.

¹ TAKE heed that ye do not your alms before men, in order to catch their eye: for otherwise ye have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. ² Therefore when thou givest alms, sound not a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues, and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. Verily I say unto you, They receive their reward. ³ But when thou givest alms, let not thy right hand know what thy left is doing: ⁴ that thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father who seeth in secret, will himself reward thee openly. ⁵ And when thou prayest, be not as the hypocrites: for they love standing in the synagogues and at the corners of the streets, to pray, that they may make a shew to men. Verily I say unto you, That they have their reward. ⁶ But when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and shut thy door, to pray to thy Father who is in secret; and thy Father who seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. ⁷ And when thou art at prayer, use not vain repetitions, like the heathen: for they imagine that they shall be heard for their much speaking. ⁸ Be not ye therefore like them: for your Father knoweth of what things ye have need, before you ask him. ⁹ Thus then pray ye: Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. ¹⁰ Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. ¹¹ Give us this day our daily bread. ¹² And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. ¹³ And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil: for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen! ¹⁴ For if ye forgive men their offences, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: ¹⁵ but if ye forgive not to men their offences, neither will your Father forgive your offences. ¹⁶ And when ye fast, be not as the hypocrites, affecting a gloomy look: for they disfigure their visages, that they may make a shew of fasting to men. Verily I say unto you, That they have their reward. ¹⁷ But when thou keepest a fast, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; ¹⁸ that thou mayest not make a shew of fasting to men, but to thy Father who is in secret: and thy Father who seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. ¹⁹ Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where the rust and canker spoil, and where thieves dig through and steal: ²⁰ but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither rust nor canker spoil, and where thieves do not dig through and steal; ²¹ for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. ²² The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be transparent, thy whole body shall be enlightened. ²³ But if thine eye be vitiated, thy whole body will be darkened. If therefore the light which is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! ²⁴ No man can serve two masters: for he will either hate the one, and love the other; or he will adhere to the one, and disregard the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. ²⁵ For this cause I tell you, Be not anxious about your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life of more value than meat, and the body than raiment? ²⁶ Look on the birds of the air: for they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are you not of more value than they? ²⁷ But which of you, by his cares, can add one cubit to his stature? ²⁸ And why are ye anxious about clothing? Contemplate the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, nor spin: ²⁹ yet I tell you, Not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these. ³⁰ If God then so clothe a vegetable of the field, which to-day is, [in beauty], and tomorrow is cast into the furnace, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? ³¹ Wherefore be under no anxiety, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, With what shall we be clothed? ³² (for after all these things the heathen seek:) and your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of them all. ³³ But seek ye, in the first place, the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be given you over. ³⁴ Be not therefore anxious about to-morrow: for tomorrow will provide for its own wants. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.

³¹ And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and repose a little while: for there were multitudes coming and going, so that they had not even time to eat.

¹² Now it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray and continued all night in an oratory of God.

¹⁵ Now the discourse concerning him more and more spread through the country: and vast multitudes came together to hear him, and to be cured by him of their disorders. ¹⁶ But he himself was in the desert for retirement and prayer.

⁶ But when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and shut thy door, to pray to thy Father who is in secret; and thy Father who seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.