Isaiah 1:15
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I look the other way; when you offer your many prayers, I do not listen, because your hands are covered with blood.
Isaiah 59:2-3
But your sinful acts have alienated you from your God; your sins have caused him to reject you and not listen to your prayers.
Micah 3:4
Someday these sinners will cry to the Lord for help, but he will not answer them. He will hide his face from them at that time, because they have done such wicked deeds."
1 Kings 8:22
Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward the sky.
Proverbs 1:28
Then they will call to me, but I will not answer; they will diligently seek me, but they will not find me.
1 Kings 8:54
When Solomon finished presenting all these prayers and requests to the Lord, he got up from before the altar of the Lord where he had kneeled and spread out his hands toward the sky.
Ezra 9:5
At the time of the evening offering I got up from my self-abasement, with my tunic and robe torn, and then dropped to my knees and spread my hands to the Lord my God.
Job 27:8-9
For what hope does the godless have when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
Job 27:20
Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; at night a whirlwind carries him off.
Psalm 55:1
For the music director, to be accompanied by stringed instruments; a well-written song by David. Listen, O God, to my prayer! Do not ignore my appeal for mercy!
Psalm 66:18
If I had harbored sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
Psalm 134:2
Lift your hands toward the sanctuary and praise the Lord!
Isaiah 8:17
I will wait patiently for the Lord, who has rejected the family of Jacob; I will wait for him.
Isaiah 58:7
I want you to share your food with the hungry and to provide shelter for homeless, oppressed people. When you see someone naked, clothe him! Don't turn your back on your own flesh and blood!
Jeremiah 7:8-10
"'But just look at you! You are putting your confidence in a false belief that will not deliver you.
Jeremiah 14:12
Even if they fast, I will not hear their cries for help. Even if they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will kill them through wars, famines, and plagues."
Ezekiel 8:17-18
He said to me, "Do you see, son of man? Is it a trivial thing that the house of Judah commits these abominations they are practicing here? For they have filled the land with violence and provoked me to anger still further. Look, they are putting the branch to their nose!
Micah 3:9-11
Listen to this, you leaders of the family of Jacob, you rulers of the nation of Israel! You hate justice and pervert all that is right.
Zechariah 7:13
"'It then came about that just as I cried out, but they would not obey, so they will cry out, but I will not listen,' the Lord Lord who rules over all had said.
Matthew 6:7
When you pray, do not babble repetitiously like the Gentiles, because they think that by their many words they will be heard.
Matthew 23:13
"But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.
Luke 13:25-28
Once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, then you will stand outside and start to knock on the door and beg him, 'Lord, let us in!' But he will answer you, 'I don't know where you come from.'
1 Timothy 2:8
So I want the men to pray in every place, lifting up holy hands without anger or dispute.