26 Bible Verses about Prayer, As A Relationship With God

And now, O Jehovah, thou our Father; we the clay and thou forming us; and we all the work of thy hand. Thou wilt not be angry, O Jehovah, even greatly, and not forever wilt thou remember iniquity: behold, look now, Ye are all thy people.

As a father compassionating over his sons, Jehovah compassionated those fearing him. For he knew our formation; he remembered that we are dust.

For thou our Father, for Abraham knew us not, and Israel will not recognize us: thou Jehovah our Father redeeming us; thy name from eternity.

Therefore so do ye pray: Our Father which in the heavens, Let thy name be declared holy. Let thy kingdom come. Let thy will be as in heaven also upon the earth. Give us this day our bread sufficient for sustenance.read more.
And let go to us our debts, as we let go to our debtors. And thou shouldst not lead us into temptation, but deliver thou us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

And he said to them, When ye pray, say, Our Father he in the heavens, Holy be thy name. Let thy kingdom come. Let thy will be, as in heaven, also upon the earth. Give us our bread sufficient for sustenance by the day. And remit to us our sins; for we onrselves also remit to every one indebted to us. 'And bring us not into temptation; but deliver us from the evil.

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy store-house, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father which in secret; and thy Father who seeing in secret shall give back to thee openly.

Ask, and it shall be given you. Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you. For everyone asking, receives and he seeking, finds; and to him knocking shall be opened. Or what man is of you, which, if his son ask bread, he will not give him a stone?read more.
And if he ask a fish, he will not give him a serpent? If ye, therefore, being evil, know to give good gifts to your children how much more will your Father which is in the heavens give good things to those asking him?

And I say ' to you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you. For every one asking, receives; and he seeking, finds; and to him knocking, it shall be opened. . And shall a son ask bread of any of you a father, will he give him a stone ? and if a fish, for a fish he will not give him a serpent.read more.
Or also if he ask an egg, he will not give him a scorpion. If then ye, being evil, know to give good gifts to your children; how much more the Father, be from heaven, will give the Holy Spirit to them asking him ?

For ye have not received the Spirit of servitude again for fear; but have received the Spirit of adoption as a son, in which we cry, Abba, Father.

And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

And he said, Abba, Father, all things possible to thee; turn away this cup from me: but not what I will, but what thou.

And having gone forward a little, he fell upon his face, praying, and saying, My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me: but not as I will, but as thou.

Again of a second time, having gone away, he prayed, saying, My Father if this cup cannot pass away from me except I drink it, let thy will be.

Saying, Father, If thou art willing, turn aside this cup from me: but not my will, but thine, be done.

These spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour has come; honour thy Son, that thy Son honour thee: As thou gavest him the power of all flesh, that every one which thou hast given him, he should give to them eternal life. And this is eternal life, that they might know thee the only true God, and whom thou hast sent, Jesus Christ.read more.
I honoured thee upon earth: I finished the work which thou hast given me that I should do. And now, honour thou me, O Father, with thyself, with the honour which I had with thee before the world was. I manifested thy name to the men which thou hast given me from the world: they were to thee, and thou hast given them to me; and they have kept thy word. Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. For the words which thou hast given me, I have given them and they received, and knew in truth that I came out from thee, and they believed that thou sentest me. I ask for them: I ask not for the world, but for them thou hast given me: for they are to thee. And all my things are thine, and thine mine; and I have been honoured in them. And I am no more in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. O holy Father, keep them in thy name whom thou but given me, that they might be one, as we. When I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those thou hast given me I watched, and not one of them perished, except the son of perdition; that the writing might be completed. And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that I might have my joy completed in them. I have given them thy word; and the world hated them, for they are not of the world, as I am not of the world. I ask not that thou take them out of the world, but that thou keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, as I am not of the world. Render them holy in thy truth: thy word is truth. As thou sentest me into the world, I also sent them into the world. And for them I render myself holy, that they also be rendered holy in the truth; And I ask not for these alone, but also for them believing in me through their word; That all might be one; as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee, that they also be one in us; that the world might believe that thou sentest me. And I, the honour which thou hast given me, have-given them; that they might be one, as we are one. I in them, and thou in me, that they might be perfected in one: and that the world might know that thou sentest me, and lovedst them, as thou lovedst me. O Father, those thou hast given me, I will that where I am these also be with me: that they might behold my glory, which thou gavest me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. O just Father, the world knew thee not: but I knew thee, and these knew that thou didst send me. And I made known to them thy name, and I will make known: that the love with which thou lovedst me might be in them, and I in them.

Having therefore, brethren, freedom of speech for the entering in of the holies by the blood of Jesus, A way publicly declared and living, which he consecrated to us, through the veil, that is, his flesh; And a great priest over the house of God;read more.
Let us approach with a true heart in complete certainty of faith, having our hearts besprinkled from an evil consciousness, and having our bodies washed with pure water.

In whom we have freedom of speech and access with confidence by his faith.

And it is yet more abundantly manifest: that according to the resemblance of Melchisedec has another priest risen, Who according to the law of a fleshly command was not born, but according to the power of an indestructible life. For he testifies, Thou a priest forever, according to the order of Melchisedec.read more.
For there is truly an annulling of the command going before by its weakness and unprofitableness. (For the law completed nothing,) but the bringing in of a better hope; by which we draw near to God.

To the overseer instructing for the sons of Borah. As the stag will long for the channels of waters, thus will my soul long for thee, O God. My soul thirsted for God, for the living God: when shall I come and see the face of God?

And ye called me, and went and prayed to me, and I heard to you. And ye sought me and found, for ye will seek me with all your heart.

I waited for Jehovah, my soul waited, and I hoped for his word My soul for Jehovah more than they watching for the morning: they watching for the morning.

Jehovah is near to all calling upon him, to all who shall call upon him in truth. He will do the desire of them fearing him, and he will hear their cry and he will save them.

I loved those loving me: and they seeking me shall find me.

My soul desired thee in the night; also my spirit in the midst of me I will seek thee: for when thy judgments to the earth, those dwelling in the habitable globe will learn justice.

O Jehovah, pity us: we hoped for thee: be thou their arm for the mornings, also our salvation in time of straits.

Good Jehovah to those waiting for him, to the soul that will seek him.