20 Bible Verses about Importunity, Towards God

Evening and morning, and at noon, I will pray and cry aloud; and He shall hear my voice.

To the Chief Musician, on the deer of the dawn. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have You forsaken me, and are far from my deliverance, and from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not answer; and in the night, and am not silent.

Be merciful to me, O Lord; for I cry to You daily.

A Song. A Psalm for the sons of Korah. To the Chief Musician. On Mahalath, to make humble. A Poem of Heman the Ezrahite. O Jehovah, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before You.

Pray without ceasing.

But she being really a widow, and having been left alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.

Ask and it shall be given to you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you. For each one who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, it shall be opened.

And I say to you, Ask and it shall be given you. Seek and you shall find. Knock and it shall be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives. And he who seeks finds. And to him who knocks it shall be opened.

And He also spoke a parable to them to teach it is always right to pray, and not to faint,

saying, A certain judge was in a certain city, not fearing God, nor respecting man. And a widow was in that city. And she came to Him, saying, Avenge me of my adversary. And he would not do so for a time. But afterward he said within himself, Though I do not fear God nor regard man,read more.
yet because this widow troubles me, I will avenge her, that she not wear me down in the end. And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge says. And shall not God avenge His own elect who cry day and night to Him, though He has been long-suffering over them? I say to you that He will avenge them speedily. Yet when the Son of Man comes, shall He find faith on the earth?

praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching to this very thing with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.

For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers, making request if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come to you.

Epaphras greets you, he being of you, a servant of Christ, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

We give thanks to God for you always, making mention of you in our prayers, remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father,

I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day,

I looked for Your favor with all my heart; be merciful to me according to Your Word.

A Song of degrees. Out of the depths I have cried to You, O Jehovah. Lord, hear my voice, and let Your ears listen to the voice of My prayers.

To the Chief Musician. For stringed instruments. A contemplation. A Psalm of David. Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not Yourself from my cry. Attend to me, and hear me; I wander and I moan in my complaint,

To the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Hear my cry, O God; attend to my prayer. From the end of the earth I cry to You when my heart is faint; Lead me to the Rock higher than I.

But let man and animal be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God. And let them each one turn from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.