18 Bible Verses about Not Praying

And the Lord said to Moses, Why are you crying out to me? give the children of Israel the order to go forward.

And as for you (Jeremiah), make no prayers for this people, send up no cry or prayer for them, make no request for them to me: for I will not give ear.

And as for you, make no prayers for this people, send up no cry or prayer for them: for I will not give ear to their cry in the time of their trouble.

And the Lord said to me, Make no prayer for this people for their good.

All the chief rulers of the kingdom, the chiefs and the captains, the wise men and the rulers, have made a common decision to put in force a law having the king's authority, and to give a strong order, that whoever makes any request to any god or man but you, O King, for thirty days, is to be put into the lions' hole.

Then they came near before the king and said, O King, have you not put your name to an order that any man who makes a request to any god or man but you, O King, for thirty days, is to be put into the lions' hole? The king made answer and said, The thing is fixed by the law of the Medes and Persians which may not come to an end.

I said, Now the Philistines will come down on me at Gilgal, and I have made no prayer for help to the Lord: and so, forcing myself to do it, I made a burned offering.

But you have made no prayer to me, O Jacob: and you have given no thought to me, O Israel.

I have been ready to give an answer to those who did not make prayer to me; I have been offering myself to those who were not searching for me; I said, Here am I, here am I, to a nation which gave no respect to my name.

Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.

Have the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food, as they would take bread; they make no prayer to God.

And there is no one who makes prayer to your name, or who is moved to keep true to you: for your face is veiled from us, and you have given us into the power of our sins.

They are all heated like an oven, and they put an end to their judges; all their kings have been made low; not one among them makes prayer to me.

Let your wrath be let loose on the nations which have no knowledge of you, and on the families who give no worship to your name: for they have made a meal of Jacob, truly they have made a meal of him and put an end to him and made his fields a waste.

Those who have no fear of God keep wrath stored up in their hearts; they give no cry for help when they are made prisoners.

And they have not made prayer to me in their hearts, but they make loud cries on their beds; they are cutting themselves for food and wine, they are turned against me.

Up to now you have made no request in my name: do so, and it will be answered, so that your hearts may be full of joy.

My prayer is not that you will take them out of the world, but that you will keep them from the Evil One.