20 Bible Verses about Importunity, Towards God

{Morning, noon and night} I will lament and groan loudly, and he will hear my voice.

My God, my God why have you forsaken me? [Why are you] far from helping me, [far from] the words of my groaning? O my God, I call by day and you do not answer, and [by] night but I have no rest.

Be gracious to me, O Lord, because I call to you {all day long}.

O Yahweh, God of my salvation, I cry out by day [and] through the night before you.

pray constantly,

But the widow [who is one] truly, and is left alone, has put her hope in God and continues in her petitions and prayers night and day.

"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

And I tell you, ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

And he told them a parable to [show that] they must always pray and not be discouraged,

saying, "There was a certain judge in a certain town who did not fear God and did not respect people. And there was a widow in that town, and she kept coming to him, saying, 'Grant me justice against my adversary!' And he was not willing for a time, but after these [things] he said to himself, 'Even if I do not fear God or respect people,read more.
yet because this widow is causing trouble for me, I will grant her justice, so that she does not wear me down in the end [by her] coming back!'" And the Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge is saying! And will not God surely {see to it that justice is done} to his chosen ones who cry out to him day and night, and will he delay toward them? I tell you that {he will see to it that justice is done} for them soon! Nevertheless, [when] the Son of Man comes, then will he find faith on earth?"

with all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and to this [end] being alert with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints,

For God, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, is my witness, how constantly I make mention of you, always asking in my prayers if somehow now at last I may succeed to come to you in the will of God.

Epaphras, who is [one] of you, greets you, a slave of Christ always struggling on behalf of you in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

We give thanks to God always concerning all of you, making mention constantly in our prayers, [because we] remember your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father,

{I am thankful} to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience {as my ancestors did}, when {I remember you constantly} in my prayers night and day,

I {seek your favor} with my whole heart; be gracious [to] me according to your word.

Out of [the] depths I call to you, O Yahweh. "O Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.

Give ear, O God, [to] my prayer, and do not hide yourself from my plea. Attend to me and answer me. I am restless in my lamenting and I groan,

Hear, O God, my cry; attend to my prayer. From the end of the earth I call to you when my heart grows faint. You will lead me to a rock [that is] higher than I.

And [the] human beings and [the] animals must be covered [with] sackcloth! And they must call forcefully to God, and each must turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.