Job 35:13
Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
Proverbs 15:29
The LORD is far from the wicked: but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
Isaiah 1:15
And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: yea, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Jeremiah 11:11
Therefore thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.
James 4:3
You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it upon your lusts.
Job 22:22-27
Receive, I pray you, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
Job 27:8-9
For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when God takes away his soul?
Job 30:20
I cry unto you, and you do not hear me: I stand up, and you regard me not.
Psalm 102:17
He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Proverbs 28:9
He that turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.
Ecclesiastes 5:1-3
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
Hosea 7:14
And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they wailed upon their beds: they assemble themselves for grain and wine, and they rebel against me.
Hosea 8:2-3
Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know you.
Amos 5:22
Though you offer me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fatted beasts.
Matthew 6:7
But when you pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Matthew 20:21-22
And he said unto her, What will you? She said unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on your right hand, and the other on the left, in your kingdom.