Job 35:13
"Surely God does not hear an empty plea, and Shaddai does not regard it.
Proverbs 15:29
Yahweh is far from the wicked, but the prayers of the righteous he will hear.
Isaiah 1:15
And when you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I [will] not be listening. Your hands are full of blood.
Jeremiah 11:11
{Therefore} thus says Yahweh, "I [am] about to bring on them disaster from which they will not be able to escape. Though they cry out to me, yet I will not listen to them.
James 4:3
You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, in order that you may spend [it] on your pleasures.
Job 22:22-27
Please receive instruction from his mouth, and place his words in your heart.
Job 27:8-9
for what [is the] hope of [the] godless when he cuts [them] off, when God takes away his life?
Job 30:20
I cry to you for help, but you do not answer me; I stand, and you [merely] look at me.
Psalm 102:17
He will turn his attention to the prayer of the destitute and will not despise their prayer.
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination of Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright [is] his delight.
Proverbs 28:9
He who turns his ear from listening to instruction, even his prayer [is] an abomination.
Ecclesiastes 5:1-3
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God; draw near to listen [rather] than to offer a sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil.
Hosea 7:14
They do not cry out to me from their heart, but they wail on their beds; because of grain and new wine they lacerate themselves; they depart from me.
Hosea 8:2-3
They cry out to me, "My God! We, Israel, know you!"
Amos 5:22
Yes, [even] if you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept [them], and I will not look at the fellowship offerings of your fattened animals.
Matthew 6:7
"But [when you] pray, do not babble repetitiously like the pagans, for they think that because of their many words they will be heard.
Matthew 20:21-22
And he said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Say that these two sons of mine may sit one at your right hand and one at your left in your kingdom."