19 Bible Verses about Not Praying
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And the LORD said unto Moses, Why do you cry unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:
Therefore pray not for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear you.
Therefore pray not you 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 for their trouble.
All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the satraps, the counselors, and the advisors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, except from you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king's decree; have you not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any god or man within thirty days, except of you, 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 Medes and Persians, which alters not.
Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the LORD: I felt compelled therefore, and offered a burnt offering.
But you have not called upon me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of me, O Israel.
I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto 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 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 your name, that stirs up himself to take hold of you: for you have hid your face from us, and have consumed us, because of our iniquities.
They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings have fallen: there is none among them that calls unto me.
Pour out your wrath upon the nations that have not known you, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon your name.
Pour out your fury upon the nations that know you not, and upon the families that call not on your name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he binds them.
And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they wailed upon their beds: they assemble themselves for grain and wine, and they rebel against me.
Until now have you asked nothing in my name: ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be full.
I pray not that you should take them out of the world, but that you should keep them from the evil.
