First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. (1 Timothy 2:1-2)

You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier. (2 Timothy 2:3-4)

Do not be envious of evil men,
Nor desire to be with them;
(Proverbs 24:1)

Behold, I will do a new thing,
Now it shall spring forth;
Shall you not know it?
I will even make a road in the wilderness
And rivers in the desert.
(Isaiah 43:19)

But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” (Acts 1:8)

Now King David was old, advanced in age; and they covered him with clothes, but he could not keep warm. (1 Kings 1)

A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. (Psalm 68:5)

“This, then, is how you should pray:
“‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,

Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate” (Genesis 3:12).

Now this man (Elkanah) would go up from his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice to the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. (1 Samuel 1:3)