21 Bible Verses about Prayer, As Asking God
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Be anxious for nothing, but with all prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
Ask, and it shall be given you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.
And I tell you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;
Till now you have asked nothing in my name; ask and you shall receive, that your joy may be complete.
praying with all prayer and supplication on every occasion with the spirit, and watching in the same with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints, and for me, that a word may be given me at the opening of my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel, in behalf of which I perform an embassy in bonds, that I may speak boldly in them, as I ought to speak.
If any one among you is afflicted, let him pray; if any one is happy, let him sing psalms;
Peter therefore was kept by the guard; but prayer was made incessantly by the church to God for him.
And going forward a little, he fell on his face, and prayed and said, My Father, if it is possible let this cup pass from me; but not as I will, but as thou wilt.
And going forward a little he fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it was possible, the hour might pass away from him. And he said, Abba, father, all things are possible to thee. Take away this cup from me; but not what I will but what thou wilt.
saying, Father, if thou wilt, take this cup away from me; but not my will, but thine be done. And an angel appeared to him from heaven, strengthening him. And being in agony, he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat was like large drops of blood falling down to the ground.
And when they came, they went up into the upper room where staid Peter and John, and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alpheus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the [brother] of James. All these continued with one accord in prayer, with the women, and with Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.
and they attended constantly to the teaching and companionship of the apostles, the breaking of bread and the prayers.
And on the sabbath we went out of the gate, by the river, where the proseuche [place of prayer] usually was, and sitting down we spoke to the women who came together.
And when we had completed the days we went out and proceeded on our journey, they all attending us with their wives and children till without the city, and kneeling down on the shore we prayed,
And when they heard it they lifted up their voice with one consent to God, and said, Master, thou who hast made heaven, and the earth, the sea, and all things in them, who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the nations rage and the peoples devise vain things? the kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were assembled together against the Lord, and against his anointed.read more.
For of a truth, in this city, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the gentiles and people of Israel, were assembled together against thy holy servant Jesus whom thou hast anointed, to do what thy hand and counsel before appointed to be done. And now, Lord, look down upon their threatenings, and grant to thy servants with all boldness to speak thy word, by stretching out thy hand, that cures and miracles and prodigies may be performed by the name of thy holy servant Jesus. And when they had prayed the place was shaken in which they were assembled, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and spoke the word of God with boldness.
But at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sung praises to God, and the prisoners heard them.
Let us therefore approach with boldness the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace for timely aid.
And behold two blind men who sat by the way, hearing that Jesus was passing by cried, saying, Have mercy on us Lord, Son of David! And the multitude charged them to be still; but they cried the more, saying, Have mercy on us Lord, Son of David!
