For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.

I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.

And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.

In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.