37 Bible Verses about Prayer, Offered With

With prayer and supplication pray at all times in the Spirit. Watch with all perseverance and supplication for all the holy ones.

You will receive the things you ask for in prayer when you have faith.

However he must ask in faith, not doubting: for he who doubts is like a surging wave of the sea driven by 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.

Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. (Matthew 18:21) (Mark 11:25) (Luke 11:4)

When you look for me, you will find me. When you wholeheartedly seek me,

Let us lift up our hearts along with our hands to God in heaven.

I sought your favor with all my heart. Be gracious to me as you promise in your word.

Yet if you devote your heart to him and stretch out your hands to him,

I remember these things and I pour out my heart within me. I used to go along with the crowd and lead them in procession to the house of God, with the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.

You worship what you do not know. We worship what we know. Salvation is from the Jews. But the hour comes and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father with spirit and truth. The Father seeks such people to worship him. God is a Spirit. They who worship him must worship him with spirit and truth.

What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding (Greek: nous: mind) also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding (mind) also.

Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call. This I know, that God is for me!

When I am in trouble, I call out to you because you answer me.

This is the confidence that we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

He prayed: Father if it is your will remove this cup from me, nevertheless not my will, but your will be done.

([Psalm of David]) Hear my plea for justice, O Jehovah. Pay attention to my cry. Open your ears to my prayer, spoken without deceit.

I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or argument.

However, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, search for me, and turn from their evil ways, I will hear their prayer from heaven, forgive their sins, and heal their country.

When he experienced distress, he begged Jehovah his God to be kind and humbled himself in front of the God of his ancestors.

Jehovah is near to all who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth.

God is a Spirit. They who worship him must worship him with spirit and truth.

Let your ear now take note and let your eyes be open. Please give ear to the prayer of your servant. At this time, day and night I pray for the children of Israel, your servants. I put before you the sins of the children of Israel that we have done against you: truly, my father's people and I are sinners.

([Psalm of David]) Listen to my prayer, O God. Do not hide from my plea for favor. Pay attention to me, and answer me. My thoughts are restless. I am confused and distracted.

([Psalm of David]) Hear my cry, O God; listen to my prayer!

Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Incline your ear to me. In the day when I call answer me quickly.

Save us with your powerful hand (great power), and answer us so that those who are dear to you may be rescued.

([Psalm of David]) Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, Give ear to my supplications! Answer me in your faithfulness. Answer me in your righteousness!

Let us approach the throne of grace (loving-kindness) with confidence, that we may receive mercy, and find grace for help in time of need.

Night and day we pray exceedingly that we might see you in person, and might perfect (restore) (repair) that which is lacking in your faith.

Elijah was a man of like passions with us. He prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.

He said to him: Let me go now, for the dawn is near. But Jacob said: I will not let you go till you have given me your blessing.

I tell you even if he will not rise and give you what you need because he is your friend, he will arise and give you what you need because you keep asking. I say to you: Ask and it will be given you. Seek and you will find. Knock and it will be opened to you.

He spoke an illustration to them emphasizing the need to pray and not become tired: There was a judge in a city that did not fear God and had no respect for man. There was a widow in that same city. She went to him asking for legal protection from her adversary.read more.
At first he refused. Then he thought about it and he said to himself, I do not fear God and have little respect for man. However this widow bothers me. For this reason I will avenge her. If she keeps coming to me she will wear me out. The Lord continued: Pay attention to what the unrighteous judge said. Should God avenge his chosen that cry to him day and night, and yet he is longsuffering over them?

Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in supplications and prayers day and night.

Pray without ceasing.

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