13 Bible Verses about Causes of failure in

As for this, three times have I besought the Lord to rid me of him;

All of these with one mind continued earnest in prayer, together with some women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and His brothers.

I also solemnly tell you that if two of you here on earth agree together concerning anything whatever that they shall ask, the boon will come to them from my Father who is in Heaven.

and the whole multitude of the people were outside praying, at the hour of incense.

And they, upon hearing the story, all lifted up their voices to God and said, "O Sovereign Lord, it is Thou who didst make Heaven and earth and sea, and all that is in them,

So, after thinking things over, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John surnamed Mark, where a large number of people were assembled, praying.

But let him ask in faith and have no doubts; for he who has doubts is like the surge of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed into spray. A person of that sort must not expect to receive anything from the Lord--

or you pray and yet do not receive, because you pray wrongly, your object being to waste what you get on some pleasure or another.

As soon then as the High Priests and the officers saw Him, they shouted "To the cross! To the cross!" "Take him yourselves and crucify him," said Pilate; "for I, at any rate, find no crime in him."

In like manner the High Priests also, together with the Scribes and the Elders, taunted Him.

But the High Priests urged on the crowd to obtain Barabbas's release in preference;

while on the other hand upon the self-willed who disobey the truth and obey unrighteousness will fall anger and fury, affliction and awful distress,

And that servant who has been told his Master's will and yet made no preparation and did not obey His will, will receive many lashes.

How much severer punishment, think you, will he be held to deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, has not regarded as holy that Covenant-blood with which he was set free from sin, and has insulted the Spirit from whom comes grace?

Curb every passion, and be on the alert. Your great accuser, the Devil, is going about like a roaring lion to see whom he can devour.

The hired servant--one who is not a shepherd and does not own the sheep--no sooner sees the wolf coming than he leaves the sheep and runs away; and the wolf worries and scatters them.

I know that, when I am gone, cruel wolves will come among you and will not spare the flock;

The Master however said to him, "Here we see how you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup or plate, while your secret hearts are full of greed and selfishness.

But if you are perpetually snarling and snapping at one another, beware lest you are destroyed by one another.

For you know that even afterwards, when he wished to secure the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no opportunity for undoing what he had done, though he sought the blessing earnestly with tears.

"'In solemn truth I tell you,' he replied, 'I do not know you.'

"But He will reply, "'I tell you that you are no friends of mine. Begone from me, all of you, wrongdoers that you are.'

But let him ask in faith and have no doubts; for he who has doubts is like the surge of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed into spray. A person of that sort must not expect to receive anything from the Lord--

or you pray and yet do not receive, because you pray wrongly, your object being to waste what you get on some pleasure or another.