20 Bible Verses about Importunity, Towards God
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In the evening, and morning, and at noon day will I mourn and complain: and he shall hear my voice.
{To the Chanter, upon Aijeleth of the dawning, a Psalm of David} My God, my God: why hast thou forsaken me, and art so far from my health and from the words of my complaint? O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not: and in the night season also I take no rest.
{A Psalm and song of the sons of Korah, to the Chanter upon Mahalath, to give thanks, an Instruction of Heman the Ezrahite} O LORD God my Savior, I have cried day and night before thee;
She that is a very widow, and friendless, putteth her trust in God, and continueth in supplication and prayer night and day:
"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For whosoever asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
"And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you. Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh, receiveth: and he that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh shall it be opened.
He put forth a similitude unto them, signifying that men ought always to pray, and not to be weary,
saying, "There was a Judge in a certain city, which feared not God neither regarded man. And there was a certain widow in the same city, which came unto him saying, 'Avenge me of mine adversary.' And he would not for a while. But afterward he said unto himself, 'Though I fear not God, nor care for man,read more.
yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her: lest at the last she come, and hag on me.'" And the Lord said, "Hear what the unrighteous judge sayeth. And shall not God avenge his elect, which cry night and day unto him? Yea though he defer them: I tell you, he will avenge them, and that quickly. Nevertheless, when the son of man cometh, suppose ye that he shall find faith on the earth?"
and pray always with all manner prayer and supplication - and that in the spirit - and watch thereunto with all instance 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, beseeching that at one time or another, a prosperous journey, by the will of God, might fortune me to come unto you.
Epaphras the servant of Christ, which is one of you, saluteth you, and always laboureth fervently for you in prayers that ye may stand perfect, and full in all that is the will of God.
We give God thanks always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers without ceasing, and call to remembrance your work in the faith, and labour in love and perseverance in the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God our father:
I thank God, whom I serve from mine elders with pure conscience, that without ceasing I make mention of thee in my prayers night and day,
I make my humble petition in thy presence with my whole heart; O be merciful unto me, according unto thy word.
{A song of the stairs} Out of the deep have I called unto thee, O LORD; LORD, hear my voice. O let thine ears consider well the voice of my complaint.
{To the Chanter, in Neginoth, an instruction of David} Hear my prayer, O God, and hide not thyself from my petition. Take heed unto me, and hear me, how piteously I mourn and complain.
{To the Chanter, upon Neginoth, of David} Hear my crying, O God, give heed unto my prayer. From the ends of the earth will I call unto thee, when my heart is in heaviness. O set me up upon the rock that is higher than I;
And they put on sackcloth both man and beast, and cried unto God mightily, and turned every man from his wicked way, and from doing wrong in which they were accustomed, saying,
