27 Bible Verses about Causes of failure in

See how the Lord has made great his mercy for me; the Lord will give ear to my cry.

So that the cry of the poor might come up to him, and the prayer of those in need come to his ears.

In my trouble my voice went up to the Lord, and my cry to my God: my voice came to his hearing in his holy Temple, and my prayer came before him, even into his ears.

The cry of the upright comes before the Lord, and he takes them out of all their troubles.

The Lord is far from sinners, but his ear is open to the prayer of the upright.

So David made prayer to God for the child; and he took no food day after day, and went in and, stretching himself out on the earth, was there all night.

But it is not possible for you to see my face, for no man may see me and still go on living.

Son of man, say to the responsible men of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: Have you come to get directions from me? By my life, says the Lord, you will get no directions from me.

But the Lord was angry with me because of you and would not give ear to my prayer; and the Lord said to me, Let it be enough, say no more about this thing.

And about this thing I made request to the Lord three times that it might be taken away from me.

And they all with one mind gave themselves up to prayer, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

Again, I say to you, that if two of you are in agreement on earth about anything for which they will make a request, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.

And all the people were offering prayers outside, at the time of the burning of perfumes.

And hearing it, they all, with one mind, made prayer to God and said, O Lord, maker of heaven and earth and the sea and all things in them:

And when he became clear about this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John named Mark, where a number of them had come together for prayer.

And when Saul went for directions to the Lord, the Lord gave him no answer, by a dream or by the Urim or by the prophets.

And you came back, weeping before the Lord; but the Lord gave no attention to your cries and did not give ear to you.

And Saul, desiring directions from God, said, Am I to go down after the Philistines? will you give them up into the hands of Israel? But he gave him no answer that day.

But your sins have come between you and your God, and by your evil doings his face has been veiled from you, so that he will give you no answer.

Then they will be crying to the Lord for help, but he will not give them an answer: yes, he will keep his face veiled from them at that time, because their acts have been evil.

He whose ears are stopped at the cry of the poor, will himself get no answer to his cry for help.

And it came about that as they would not give ear to his voice, so I would not give ear to their voice, says the Lord of armies:

As for the man whose ear is turned away from hearing the law, even his prayer is disgusting.

Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:

And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.

Let him make his request in faith, doubting nothing; for he who has doubt in his heart is like the waves of the sea, which are troubled by the driving of the wind. Let it not seem to such a man that he will get anything from the Lord;

I said in my heart, The Lord will not give ear to me:

You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure.

So when the chief priests and the police saw him they gave a loud cry, To the cross! to the cross! Pilate said to them, Take him yourselves and put him on the cross: I see no crime in him.

In the same way, the chief priests, making sport of him, with the scribes and those in authority, said,

Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.

Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.

But the people were moved by the chief priests to make him let Barabbas go free.

But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath,

And it will come about at that time, that I will go searching through Jerusalem with lights; and I will send punishment on the men who have become like wine stored over-long, who say to themselves, The Lord will not do good and will not do evil.

And the servant who had knowledge of his lord's desires and was not ready for him and did not do as he was ordered, will be given a great number of blows;

But will not the man by whom the Son of God has been crushed under foot, and the blood of the agreement with which he was washed clean has been taken as an unholy thing, and who has had no respect for the Spirit of grace, be judged bad enough for a very much worse punishment?

And I will send punishment on the world for its evil, and on the sinners for their wrongdoing; and I will put an end to all pride, and will make low the power of the cruel.

Be serious and keep watch; the Evil One, who is against you, goes about like a lion with open mouth in search of food;

He who is a servant, and not the keeper or the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming and goes in flight, away from the sheep; and the wolf comes down on them and sends them in all directions:

I am conscious that after I am gone, evil wolves will come in among you, doing damage to the flock;

And the Lord said to him, You Pharisees make the outside of the cup and the plate clean; but inside you are thieves and full of evil.

But if you are given to fighting with one another, take care that you are not the cause of destruction one to another.

There is wealth in the tents of those who make destruction, and those by whom God is moved to wrath are safe; even those whose god is their strength.

You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?

They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.

Because of my envy of the men of pride, when I saw the well-being of the wrongdoers.

I have seen the evil-doer in great power, covering the earth like a great tree.

For you have knowledge that even long after, when he was desiring the blessing for his heritage, he was turned away, though he made his request frequently and with weeping; because the past might not be changed.

For to go against his orders is like the sin of those who make use of secret arts, and pride is like giving worship to images. Because you have put away from you the word of the Lord, he has put you from your place as king.

So the Lord would have nothing to do with all the offspring of Israel, and sent trouble on them, and gave them up into the hands of their attackers, till he had sent them away from before his face.)

But he made answer and said, Truly I say to you, I have no knowledge of you.

But he will say, Truly, I have no knowledge of you or where you come from; go away from me, you workers of evil.

And when Saul went for directions to the Lord, the Lord gave him no answer, by a dream or by the Urim or by the prophets.

And you came back, weeping before the Lord; but the Lord gave no attention to your cries and did not give ear to you.

And Saul, desiring directions from God, said, Am I to go down after the Philistines? will you give them up into the hands of Israel? But he gave him no answer that day.

But your sins have come between you and your God, and by your evil doings his face has been veiled from you, so that he will give you no answer.

Then they will be crying to the Lord for help, but he will not give them an answer: yes, he will keep his face veiled from them at that time, because their acts have been evil.

He whose ears are stopped at the cry of the poor, will himself get no answer to his cry for help.

And it came about that as they would not give ear to his voice, so I would not give ear to their voice, says the Lord of armies:

As for the man whose ear is turned away from hearing the law, even his prayer is disgusting.

Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:

And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.

Let him make his request in faith, doubting nothing; for he who has doubt in his heart is like the waves of the sea, which are troubled by the driving of the wind. Let it not seem to such a man that he will get anything from the Lord;

I said in my heart, The Lord will not give ear to me:

You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure.