38 Bible Verses about Prayer, As A Response To God

Song of ascensions. To thee dwelling in the heavens I lifted up mine eyes. Behold, as the eyes of servants to the hand of their lords, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are to Jehovah our God, even till he compassionate us.

To David. To thee, O Jehovah, I will lift up my soul.

Rejoice the soul of thy servant, for to thee, O Jehovah, will I lift up my soul.

Song of ascensions. I will lift up mine eyes to the mountains from whence shall come my help. My help from Jehovah; he made the heavens and the earth.

Cause me to hear thy mercy in the morning; for in thee I trusted: cause me to know the way that I shall go; for to thee I lifted up my soul.

The eyes of all hope for thee, and thou givest to them their food in its time.

And I always with thee: thou didst hold by my right hand. In thy counsel thou wilt guide me, and after, thou wilt receive me with glory. Who to me in the heavens? and from thee I desired nothing in the earth.read more.
My flesh failed and my heart: the rock of my heart and my portion is God forever.

And Jehovah spake to Moses face to face, as a man will speak to his friend. And he turned back to the camp; and his minister Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not from the midst of the tent.

Jehovah our God will be with us as he was with our fathers: he will not forsake us, and he will not cast us off. To incline our heart to him, to go in all his ways, and to watch his commands and his laws and his judgments which he commanded our fathers. And these words which I supplicated before Jehovah shall be drawing near to Jehovah our God day and night, to do the judgment of his servant and the judgment of his people Israel, the word of a day in its day.

Thou saidst to Jehovah, Thou my Lord: my good not upon thee.

Jehovah is just in all his ways, and merciful in all his works. 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.read more.
Jehovah watches all loving him, and all the unjust he will destroy.

For where two or three are assembled in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

And he was retreating into the deserts, and praying.

And the king will say to me, For what this thou seekest? And I shall pray to the God of the heavens.

And Daniel as soon as he knew that the writing was signed, went up into his house; and the windows being opened to him in his upper chambers before Jerusalem, three times in the day he kneeled upon his knees, and praying and praising before his God, for the cause that he did from before this Then these men ran together with tumult and found Daniel seeking and making supplication before his God.

I asked one from Jehovah, I will seek it; I sat in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to look upon the sweetness of Jehovah, and to inquire in his temple.

praise ye in his holy name: the heart of those seeking Jehovah shall rejoice. Seek ye Jehovah and his strength, seek his face always.

Boast ye in his holy name: the heart of those seeking Jehovah shall rejoice. Seek ye Jehovah and his strength: seek his face always.

My heart said to thee, Seek .ye my face; thy face, O Jehovah, I will seek.

Seek ye Jehovah in his being found, and call him in his being near.

And ye sought me and found, for ye will seek me with all your heart.

To seek the Lord, if perchance indeed they have felt for him, and found, although not being far from each one of us: For in him we live, and move, and are; as certain of the composers among you have said, For we also are his race.

And without faith it is impossible to please: for he approaching to God must believe that he is, and is a remunerator to them seeking him out.

And Jehovah will come and stand and call as once to once, Samuel, Samuel. And Samuel will say, Speak, for thy servant heard.

And I shall hear the voice of Jehovah, saying, Whom shall I send, and who shall go for us? and behold me saying, Send me.

Behold, I stand before the door, and knock: and if any hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

And this is the message which we have heard from him, and we announce to you, that God is light, and no darkness is in him. If we say that we have communion with him, and walk in darkness, we are deceived, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have communion with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from every sin.read more.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we acknowledge our sins, he is faithful and just that he let go sins to us, and cleanse us from all injustice.

And this called to this, and said, Holy, holy, holy, Jehovah of armies: all the earth full of his glory. The foundations of the thresholds will tremble from the voice calling, and the house will be filled with smoke. And saying, Wo to me! for I was cut off; because I a man of unclean lips, and in the midst of a people of unclean lips I dwell: for mine eyes saw the king, Jehovah of armies.read more.
And one from the seraphs will fly to me, and in his hand a hot stone, he took with the tongs from off the altar: And he will touch upon my mouth, and say, Behold, this touched upon thy lips; and took away thine iniquity, and thy sin shall be covered.

The unjust one shall forsake his way, and the man of vanity his purposes, and turn back to Jehovah, and he will pity him, and to our God, for he will multiply to forgive. For not my purposes your purposes and not your ways my ways, says Jehovah As the heavens were high above the earth, so my ways were high above your ways, and my purposes above your purposes.

To the overseer: chanting to David; In the coming to him of Nathan the prophet, when he went in to Bathsheba. Compassionate me, O God, according to thy mercy: according to the Multitude of thy compassions wipe away my transgressions. Multiply to wash me from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

For I shall know my transgression, and my sin is always before me. Against thee, thee alone, did I sin, and I did evil in thine eyes: so that thou wilt be justified in thy speaking, and thou wilt be pure in thy judging. Behold, I was born in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.read more.
Behold, thou didst delight in truth in the reins, and in bidden things thou wilt cause me to know wisdom. Thou wilt purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: thou wilt wash me and I shall be white above snow. Thou wilt cause me to hear joy and gladness; the bones thou didst break shall rejoice. Hide thy face from my sin, and wipe away all mine iniquities. Create for me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit in my midst, Thou wilt not cast me away from thy face, and thou wilt not take thy holy spirit from me. Turn back to me the joy of thy salvation, and thy willing spirit shall uphold me.

If ye remain in me, and my words remain in you, ye shall ask whatever ye wish, and it shall be to you. In this was my Father honoured, that ye should bear much fruit: and ye shall be disciples to me.

Thy word a lamp to my feet, and a light to my beaten path. I sware, and I will cease to stand, to watch the judgments of thy justice.

And Mary said Behold the servant of the Lord; may it be to me according to thy word. And the messenger departed from her.

Ye chose not me, but I chose you, and I have set you, that ye might retire and bear fruit, and your fruit remain: that whatever ye ask the Father in my name, he might give you.

We should therefore go with freedom of speech to the throne of grace, that we receive mercy, and find grace for timely assistance.

And it will be in my hearing these words, I sat down, and I shall weep and mourn days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of the heavens, And saying, Now O Jehovah, God of the heavens, the great and terrible God watching the covenant and mercy to those loving him, and to those watching his commands: Will now thine ear be attentive and thine eye opened to hear to the prayer of thy servant which I pray before thee this day, day and night, for the sons of Israel thy servants, and confess for the sins of the sons of Israel which we sinned against thee? and and the house of my father sinned.read more.
Being perverse, we were perverse against thee, and we watched not the commands and the laws and the judgments which thou didst command Moses thy servant

If any of you is forsaken of wisdom, let him ask of God, giving to all plainly, blaming not; and it shall be given him. And let him ask in faith, being at variance in nothing. For he being at variance is like the surge of the sea being moved by the wind and put in motion. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.read more.
A man divided in opinion unsteady in all his ways.