30 Bible Verses about Interceding for Others

And Abraham came near and said, “Would You also destroy the righteous with the wicked?”

But Moses pleaded with the LORD his God, and said, “LORD, why does Your wrath burn hot against Your people?”

Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you;

And the LORD restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends.

Therefore, He said that He would destroy them, had not Moses, His chosen one, stood before Him in the breach.

Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong, because He poured out His soul unto death.

So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land.

Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us.

Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

You also helping together in prayer for us.

Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit.

For I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you.

Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of this calling.

Confess your trespasses to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed.

Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.

Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men.

For kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior.

I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as my forefathers did, as without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day.

I thank my God, making mention of you always in my prayers.

Oh, that a man might plead with God as a man pleads for his neighbor!

The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are open to their cry.

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your truth?

The LORD is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous.

And He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor; therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him.

Therefore do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them, nor make intercession to Me; for I will not hear you.

And I will give them one heart, and put a new spirit within them, and take the stony heart out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh.

But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren.

Peter was therefore kept in prison, but constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church.

And he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not charge them with this sin.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not a wise man.

You come to know that it is the ability to care for others that shapes the essence of a person.

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.