19 Bible Verses about Not Praying

And Jehovah said to Moses, Why do you cry to Me? Speak to the sons of Israel, that they go forward.

Therefore do not pray for this people, nor lift up cry nor prayer for them, nor make intercession to Me; for I will not hear you.

And you, do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them. For I will not hear them in the time they cry to Me for their trouble.

Then Jehovah said to me, Do not pray for this people for good.

All the presidents of the kingdom, the prefects, and the satraps, and the officials and governors, have planned together to establish a royal law, and to make a strong ban that whoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except from you, O king, he shall be thrown into the den of lions.

Then they came near and spoke before the king concerning the king's ban, Have you not signed a ban that every man who shall ask a petition of any god or man within thirty days, except of you, O king, shall be thrown into the lion's den? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed.

and I said, The Philistines will come down now on me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to Jehovah. And I forced myself and offered a burnt offering.

But you have not called on Me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of Me, O Israel.

I am sought by those who asked not for Me; I am found by those who did not seek Me. I said, Behold Me, behold Me, to a nation not calling on My name.

Have all the workers of iniquity not known, eating up My people as they eat bread? They have not called on Jehovah.

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

And there is no one who calls on Your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us, and have melted us away because of our iniquities.

They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen; there is none among them who calls to Me.

Pour out Your wrath on the nations who have not known You, and on the kingdoms who have not called on Your name.

Pour out Your fury on the nations who do not know You, and on the families who do not call on Your name; for they have eaten up Jacob and have devoured him, and have destroyed him, and have made his dwelling desolate.

But the ungodly in heart heap up wrath; they cry not when He binds them.

And they have not cried to Me with their heart, when they howled on their beds; they gather themselves for grain and wine, and they rebel against Me.

Before now you have asked nothing in My name; ask and you shall receive, that your joy may be full.

I do not pray for You to take them out of the world, but for You to keep them from the evil.