19 Bible Verses about Not Praying

And LORD said to Moses, Why do thou cry to me? Speak to the sons of Israel, that they go forward.

Therefore pray thou not for this people, nor lift up cry nor prayer for them. Neither make intercession to me, for I will not hear thee.

Therefore do not pray thou for this people, nor lift up cry nor prayer for them, for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me because of their trouble.

And LORD said to me, Pray not for this people for good.

All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong interdict, that whoever shall ask a petition of any god o

Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king's interdict. Have thou not signed an interdict, that every man who shall make petition to any god or man within thirty days, except to thee, O king, shall be cast i

therefore I said, Now the Philistines will come down upon me to Gilgal, and I have not entreated the favor of LORD. I forced myself therefore, and offered the burnt-offering.

Yet thou have not called upon me, O Jacob, but thou have been weary of me, O Israel.

I was {manifested (LXX/NT)} by those who did not ask {for me (LXX/NT)}. I am found by those who did not seek me. I said, Behold me, behold me, to a nation that was not called by my name.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon LORD?

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon God?

And there is none who calls upon thy name, who stirs himself up to take hold of thee. For thou have hid thy face from us, and have consumed us through our iniquities.

They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings are fallen. There is none among those who call to me.

Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that do not know thee, and upon the kingdoms that do not call upon thy name.

Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name. For they have devoured Jacob. Yea, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They do not cry for help when he binds them.

And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howl upon their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They rebel against me.

Until now ye have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and ye will receive, so that your joy may be made full.

I pray not that thou should take them out of the world, but that thou should keep them from the evil.