Job 35:13
Surely God will not hear an empty [cry], nor will the Almighty regard it.
Proverbs 15:29
LORD is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
Isaiah 1:15
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood.
Jeremiah 11:11
Therefore thus says LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape. And they shall cry to me, but I will not hearken to them.
James 4:3
Ye ask, and do not receive, because ye ask wrongly, so that ye may spend on your pleasures.
Job 22:22-27
Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.
Job 27:8-9
For what is the hope of the profane, though he gets him gain, when God takes away his soul?
Job 30:20
I cry to thee, and thou do not answer me. I stand up, and thou gaze at me.
Psalm 102:17
He has regarded the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to LORD, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Proverbs 28:9
He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
Ecclesiastes 5:1-3
Keep thy foot when thou go to the house of God, for to draw near to hear is better than to give the sacrifice of fools. For they know not that they do evil.
Hosea 7:14
And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howl upon their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They rebel against me.
Hosea 8:2-3
They shall cry to me, My God, we, Israel know thee.
Amos 5:22
Yea, though ye offer me your burnt-offerings and meal-offerings, I will not accept them, nor will I regard the peace-offerings of your fat beasts.
Matthew 6:7
And while praying do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do, for they think that they will be heard by their much speaking.
Matthew 20:21-22
And he said to her, What do thou want? She says to him, Speak that these my two sons may sit, one at thy right hand and one at thy left hand in thy kingdom.