‘Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

‘For I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis.’

—Colossians 4:12 , 13

‘Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.’

—Job 22:27