37 Bible Verses about Prayer, Offered With

Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thus with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

And all things, whatsoever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive.

But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

And you shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.

Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

I entreated your favor with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to your word.

If you prepare your heart, and stretch out your hands toward him;

When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

You worship you know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

When I cry unto you, then shall my enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.

In the day of my trouble I will call upon you: for you will answer me.

And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us:

Saying, Father, if you be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but yours, be done.

[A prayer of David.] Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goes not out of feigned lips.

I desire therefore that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

If my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

And when he was in affliction, he sought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

The LORD is near unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may hear the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you now, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you: both I and my father's house have sinned.

[To the Chief Musician on neginoth, a maschil. A Song of David.] Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not yourself from my supplication. Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;

[To the Chief Musician upon neginah, a Psalm of David.] Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.

Hide not your face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline your ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.

That your beloved may be delivered: save with your right hand, and answer me.

[A Psalm of David.] Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in your faithfulness answer me, and in your righteousness.

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months.

And he said, Let me go, for the day breaks. And he said, I will not let you go, except you bless me.

I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give to him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needs. And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

And he spoke a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; Saying, There was in a city a judge, who feared not God, neither regarded man: And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of my adversary.read more.
And he would not for awhile: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; Yet because this widow troubles me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she wearies me. And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge said. And shall not God avenge his own elect, who cry day and night unto him, though he bears long with them?

Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusts in God, and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.

Pray without ceasing.

Be anxious for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.