19 Bible Verses about Not Praying

And the LORD said to Moses, Why criest thou to me? Speak to the children 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 when they cry to me for their trouble.

Then said the LORD to me, Pray not for this people for their good.

All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counselors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, 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; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that 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 Medes and Persians, which altereth not.

Therefore said I, the Philistines will now come down upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to 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 am sought by them that asked not for me; I am found by them that sought me not: 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 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 calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.

They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth to me.

Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.

Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy 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 bindeth them.

And they have not cried to me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.

Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.

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