Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.
He heareth
General references
Bible References
Far
Psalm 10:1
Why do you keep far away, O Lord? why are you not to be seen in times of trouble?
Psalm 34:16
The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to take away the memory of them from the earth.
Psalm 73:27
For those who are far away from you will come to destruction: you will put an end to all those who have not kept faith with you.
Psalm 138:6
Though the Lord is high, he sees those who are low; and he has knowledge from far off of those who are lifted up.
Matthew 25:46
And these will go away into eternal punishment; but the upright into eternal life.
Ephesians 2:12
That you were at that time without Christ, being cut off from any part in Israel's rights as a nation, having no part in God's agreement, having no hope, and without God in the world.
He heareth
Proverbs 15:8
The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.
Psalm 34:15
The eyes of the Lord are on the upright, and his ears are open to their cry.
Psalm 66:18
I said in my heart, The Lord will not give ear to me:
Isaiah 55:8
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord.
John 9:31
We have knowledge that God does not give ear to sinners, but if any man is a worshipper of God and does his pleasure, to him God's ears are open.
Romans 8:26
And in the same way the Spirit is a help to our feeble hearts: for we are not able to make prayer to God in the right way; but the Spirit puts our desires into words which are not in our power to say;
James 5:16
So then, make a statement of your sins to one another, and say prayers for one another so that you may be made well. The prayer of a good man is full of power in its working.
1 Peter 3:12
For the eyes of the Lord are on the upright, and his ears are open to their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.
General references
Genesis 20:17
Then Abraham made prayer to God, and God made Abimelech well again, and his wife and his women-servants, so that they had children.