10 Bible Verses about Praying Behind Closed Doors

But when you make your prayer, go into your private room, and, shutting the door, say a prayer to your Father in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.

And when you make your prayers, be not like the false-hearted men, who take pleasure in getting up and saying their prayers in the Synagogues and at the street turnings so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.

So that your giving may be in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.

Come, my people, into your secret places, and let your doors be shut: keep yourself safe for a short time, till his wrath is over.

And making prayer for us, that God may give us an open door for the preaching of the word, the secret of Christ, for which I am now in chains;

So he went in, and shutting the door on the two of them, made prayer to the Lord.

At evening on that day, the first day of the week, when, for fear of the Jews, the doors were shut where the disciples were, Jesus came among them and said to them, May peace be with you!

Then go in, and, shutting the door on yourself and your sons, put oil into all these vessels, putting on one side the full ones.

Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them; or you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

And it came about that when he was in prayer, by himself, and the disciples were with him, he put a question to them, saying, Who do the people say I am?