19 Bible Verses about Not Praying

Then the LORD said unto Moses, Why criest thou unto me? Speak unto the sons of Israel that they go forward:

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

Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me in their trouble.

Then the LORD said unto me, Do not pray for this people for their good.

All the presidents of the kingdom, magistrates, governors, great ones, and captains have agreed in common accord to promote a royal decree and to confirm it that whoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, except of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

Then they went and spoke before the king concerning the royal decree; Hast thou not confirmed a decree that whoever shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Media and Persia, which does not change.

therefore, I said, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the LORD. I forced myself, therefore, and offered a burnt offering.

But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.

I was sought of those that did not ask for me; I was found of those that did not seek me; I said, Here I am, Here I am, unto a people that did not invoke my name.

The workers of iniquity certainly know this; those who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the LORD.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread; they have not called upon God.

And there is none that calls upon thy name, that wakes himself up to take hold of thee; therefore, thou hast hid thy face from us and hast allowed us to wither in the power of our iniquities.

They are all hot as an oven and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen; there is no one among them that calls unto me.

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

Pour out thy fury upon the Gentiles that do not know thee and upon the nations that do not call on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob and devoured him and consumed him and have destroyed his habitation.

But the hypocrites in heart shall irritate him more; they shall not cry out when he binds them.

And they have not cried unto me with their heart when they howled upon their beds; they congregated themselves for the wheat and the wine, and they rebelled against me.

Until now ye have asked nothing in my name; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be fulfilled.

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