Bible Verses About Intercessory Prayer: Christ set an example of

But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and thou, being once converted, confirm thy brethren.

And Jesus said: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. But they, dividing his garments, cast lots.

I pray for them. I pray not for the world, but for them whom thou hast given me: because they are thine.

And all my things are thine, and thine are mine: and I am glorified in them.

And now I am not in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name whom thou hast given me: that they may be one, as we also are.

While I was with them, I kept them in thy name. Those whom thou gavest me have I kept: and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition: that the scripture may be fulfilled.

And now I come to thee: and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy filled in themselves.

I have given them thy word, and the world hath hated them: because they are not of the world, as I also am not of the world.

I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from evil.

They are not of the world, as I also am not of the world.

Sanctify them in truth. Thy word is truth.

As thou hast sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.

And for them do I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.

And not for them only do I pray, but for them also who through their word shall believe in me.

That they all may be one, as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

And the glory which thou hast given me, I have given to them: that, they may be one, as we also are one.

I in them, and thou in me: that they may be made perfect in one: and the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them, as thou hast also loved me.

Father, I will that where I am, they also whom thou hast given me may be with me: that they may see my glory which thou hast given me, because thou hast loved me before the creation of the world.