32 Bible Verses about Prayerfulness

and having been a widow for eighty-four years. She was never away from the temple; night and day she worshipped, fasting and praying.

The really forlorn widow has her hope fixed on God, night and day she is at her prayers and supplications;

I am the vine, you are the branches. He who remains in me, as I in him, bears rich fruit (because apart from me you can do nothing). If anyone does not remain in me he is thrown aside like a branch and he withers up; then the branches are gathered and thrown into the fire to be burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, then ask whatever you like and you shall have it.read more.
As you bear rich fruit and prove yourselves my disciples, my Father is glorified.

Do not pray by idle rote like pagans, for they suppose they will be heard the more they say;

they prey upon the property of widows and offer long unreal prayers. All the heavier will their sentence be!"

they prey upon the property of widows and offer long unreal prayers. All the heavier will their sentence be!"

Watch and pray, all of you, so that you may not slip into temptation. The spirit is eager but the flesh is weak."

Watch and pray, all of you, so that you may not slip into temptation. The spirit is eager but the flesh is weak."

and when he reached the spot he said to them, "Pray that you may not slip into temptation."

From hour to hour keep awake, praying that you may succeed in escaping all these dangers to come and in standing before the Son of man."

Attend to your prayers, maintain your zest for prayer by thanksgiving;

He also told them a parable about the need of always praying and never losing heart.

But about midnight, as Paul and Silas were praying and singing to God, while the prisoners listened,

never give up prayer,

Now the end of all is near. Steady then, keep cool and pray!

Elijah was a man with a nature just like our own; but he offered prayer that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain; then he prayed again, and the sky yielded rain, the earth brought forth its fruit.

In the days of his flesh, with bitter cries and tears, he offered prayers and supplications to Him who was able to save him from death; and he was heard, because of his godly fear.

while he kept in lonely places and prayed.

Then they removed the boulder, and Jesus, lifting his eyes to heaven, said, "Father, I thank thee for listening to me. (I knew thou wouldst always listen to me, but I spoke on account of the crowd around, that they might believe thou hast sent me.)"

All these men resorted with one mind to prayer, together with the women, with Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brothers.

They devoted themselves to the instruction given by the apostles and to fellowship, breaking bread and praying together.

On being released they went to their friends and related what the high priests and elders had said; and on hearing this the entire company raised their cry to God, "O Sovereign Lord, thou art he who made heaven, earth, and sea, and all that in them is, who said to our fathers by the holy Spirit through the lips of thy servant David, Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples vainly conspire?read more.
The kings of the earth stood ready, the rulers mustered together against the Lord and his Christ. In this very city they actually mustered against thy holy Servant Jesus, whom thou didst consecrate ??Herod and Pontius Pilate, together with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, mustering to carry out what thy hand had traced, thy purpose had decreed. So now, O Lord, consider the threats of these men, and grant that thy servants may be perfectly fearless in speaking thy word, when thy hand is stretched out to heal and to perform miracles and wonders by the name of thy holy Servant Jesus." At their prayer the place of meeting was shaken, and they were all filled with the holy Spirit, speaking God's word fearlessly;

but we will continue to devote ourselves to prayer and the ministry of the word."

So Peter was closely guarded in prison, while earnest prayer for him was offered to God by the church.

Hence, from the day we heard of it, we have never ceased to pray for you, asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and insight,

God is my witness, the God whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I always mention you in my prayers, asking if I may at last be sped upon my way to you by God's will.

I never cease to give thanks for you, when I mention you in my prayers.

in all my prayers for you all I always pray with a sense of joy

Night and day I pray specially that I may see your faces and supply what is defective in your faith.

In view of this we always pray for you, asking our God to make you worthy of his calling and by his power to fulfil every good resolve and every effort of faith,

I render thanks to God, the God of my fathers whom I worship with a pure conscience, as I mention you constantly in my prayers.