49 Bible Verses about Praying

Brothers, pray for me.

"While praying do not say the same words over and over again, as the Gentiles do, for they suppose that by their much speaking they will gain attention.

Do not worry about anything; but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;

Pray without ceasing.

Continue to pray at all times, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching for it with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

Keep on praying for me, too, that God may open for me a door of utterance to speak the secret truth of Christ, for which I am a prisoner.

"And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the corners of the avenues, in order that men may see them. In solemn truth I tell you that they have their reward in full.

"Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."

"Two men are going up to the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, the other a tax-gatherer.

"But you, when you pray, go into your own room and shut your door; pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Is any one of you in trouble? Let him pray.

That is why I am telling you that whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it shall be yours.

And whenever you stand up to pray, forgive, if you have anything against any one, that so your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses."

It happened about that time that he went out into the mountain to pray. He continued all night in prayer to God.

And it is my prayer that your love may abound yet more and more in intelligence and insight

For it is sanctified by the Word of God and by prayer.

But Jesus himself habitually withdrew into solitary places, and there used to pray.

For this reason from the day I heard of it I have never ceased to pray for you, asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will with every kind of wisdom and spiritual insight;

while all of you also are helping me by your prayers; so that from many lips thanksgiving may rise on my behalf for the blessings vouchsafed to me through the intercessions of many.

You continue to ask and do not receive, because you are asking with a wrong purpose, in order to spend it upon your pleasures.

For this cause I bend my knees before the Father,

One day Peter and John were going up together for the hour of prayer, at three in the afternoon,

Then he went forward a short distance, and fell on his face and prayed. "O, my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt."

My wish, then, is that in every place the men should offer prayer, lifting up holy hands, free from anger and disputation;

"and everything that you ask for in your prayers you shall have, if you believe."

In the same way the Spirit also takes hold with us in our weakness; for we know knot how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

Epaphras, one of yourselves, salutes you, a slave of Christ who is always agonizing for you in his prayers, that you may stand firm, mature, and fully assured in all the will of God.

So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer to God was made by the church for him.

It happened he was praying in a certain place, and when he stopped, one of his disciples said to him, "Master, teach us how to pray, just as John taught his disciples."

He also taught them by a parable how they ought always to pray and never to lose heart.

and the prayer of faith will restore the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, it will be forgiven him.

And as he was praying the appearances of his countenance became different, and his clothing became white and dazzling.

"So be on your guard at all times, praying that you may be worthy to escape these things that shall come to pass, and to take your stand in the presence of the Son of man."

First of all then, I am urging that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be offered regularly for all men;

do not cease to praise God for you, whenever I mention you in my prayers.

Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

On the Sabbath Day we went outside the city gate, to a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer; and we sat down and talked to the women who had gathered there.

and said to them. "Why are you asleep? Get up, and pray that you enter not into temptation."

"Nor do I pray for them alone, but for those also who believe in me through their word,