20 Bible Verses about Importunity, Towards God

Evening, and morning, and at noonday, I will complain and moan. And he will hear my voice.

My God, my God, why have thou forsaken me, far from helping me, [and] the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou answer not, and in the night season, and I am not silent.

Be merciful to me, O LORD, for to thee do I cry all the day long.

O LORD, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee.

Pray without ceasing.

But the real widow, and made alone, has hoped in God, and continues in entreaties and prayers night and day.

Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and ye will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you. For every man who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

And I say to you, ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and ye will find. Knock, and it will be opened. For every man who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

And he also spoke a parable to them about it being necessary to always pray, and not to give up,

saying, In a certain city there was a judge who did not fear God, and did not regard man. And a widow was in that city, and she came to him, saying, Avenge me of my opponent. And for a time he would not, but after these things he said within himself, Although I fear not God, and regard not man,read more.
yet because this widow causes me a beating, I will avenge her, lest by no end of coming she give me a black eye. And the Lord said, Hear ye what the unrighteous judge says. And God, will he, no, not do the vengeance of his chosen who cry out to him day and night, and yet being patient toward them? I say to you, that he will do their vengeance speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man comes, will he then find faith on the earth?

praying through every prayer and entreaty at every time in spirit, and being alert in this same thing in all perseverance and entreaty for all the sanctified,

For God is my witness whom I serve in my spirit in the good-news of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers, pleading, if somehow now at last I will have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come to you.

Epaphras, the bondman of Christ from you, salutes you, always striving for you in prayers, so that ye may stand perfect and made full in all the will of God.

We thank God always about all of you, making recollection of you in our prayers, remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

I have gratitude to God whom I serve from the forefathers in a pure conscience, as I have unceasing remembrance about thee in my supplications, night and day

I entreated thy favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to thy word.

Out of the depths I have cried to thee, O LORD. LORD, hear my voice. Let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.

Give ear to my prayer, O God, and hide not thyself from my supplication. Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan,

Hear my cry, O God. Attend to my prayer. From the end of the earth I will call to thee when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry mightily to God. Yea, let them turn each one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.