67 Bible Verses about Prayer, As Asking God

Rave anxiety about nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with gratitude let your desires be made known to God.

Seek ye Jehovah and his strength, seek his face always.

Ask, and it shall be given you. Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.

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.

Until now ye have asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy might be completed.

By all prayer and supplication praying in all time in Spirit, and for this same watching vigilantly in all perseverance and supplication for the holy: And for me, that the word might be given me, in the opening of my mouth in freedom of speech, to make known the mystery of the good news, For which I am an ambassador in perplexity: that in it I might speak freely, as I ought to speak.

Pray continually.

Does any suffer among you? let him pray. Is any cheerful? let him play on the harp.

To the overseer upon the stringed instruments; chanting of David. In my calling, answer me, O God of my justice: in straits thou didst enlarge me; compassionate me and hear my prayer.

And they will cry to Jehovah in straits to them, and he will deliver them from their distresses.

And he will bring me up from the pit of destruction, from the clay of mire, and he will set my feet upon a rock, preparing my goings. And he will give a new song in my mouth, praise to our God: many shall see and fear, and they shall trust in Jehovah.

And Jonah will pray to Jehovah his God from the bowels of the fish, And he will say, I called out of straits to me to Jehovah, and he will answer me; from the belly of hades I cried for help, thou heardest my voice. And thou wilt cast me into the depth, into the heart of the seas; and the river will surround me: all thy breakers and thy waves passed over me.

Truly therefore was Peter kept in prison: and prayer was made continually by the church to God for him.

Watch me as the pupil of the daughter of the eye: thou wilt hide me in the shadow of thy wings. From the face of the unjust that laid me waste, enemies against the soul will go round about against me.

They seeking my soul shall be ashamed and disgraced: they shall be drawn back and be ashamed purposing my evil

And he will hear Tirhakah king of Cush, saying, Behold, he came forth to war with thee: and he will turn back and send messengers to Hezekiah, saying, Thus shall ye say to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Thy God will not lift thee up whom thou trustest in him, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assur. Behold, thou heardest what the kings of Assur did to all lands to destroy them: and shalt thou be delivred?

And Asa will call to Jehovah his God, and he will say, O Jehovah, nothing with thee to help between many to those of no power: help us, O Jehovah our God, for upon thee we relied, and in thy name we came against this multitude. O Jehovah, thou our God; man shall not detain with thee.

And Jacob will say, God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaak, Jehovah having said to me, Turn back to thy land and to thy family, and I will do well with thee. I was little from all the kindness and from all the truth which thou didst to thy servant; for with my rod I passed over this Jordan, and now I became into two camps. Take me away now from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I am afraid of him, lest he shall come and smite me, the mother upon the sons.read more.
And thou saidst, Doing well I will do well with thee, and I set thy seed as the sand of the sea, which shall not be counted for multitude.

To David. To thee, O Jehovah, will I call, my rock; thou wilt not be silent from me: lest thou wilt be silent from me and I was made like with them going down to the pit Hear the voice of my supplications in my crying to thee, in my lifting up my hands to the oracle of thy holy place. Thou wilt not draw me with the unjust, and with those working vanity, speaking peace with their neighbors, and evil in their heartread more.
Give to them according to their work and according to the evil of their doings, according to the word of their hands; give to them, turn back to them their recompense. For they will not understand for the doing of Jehovah, and for the work of his hands; he will destroy them and he will not build them up. Praised be Jehovah, for he heard the voice of my supplications Jehovah my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusted, and I was helped: and my heart will exult, and from my song will I praise him. Jehovah strength to them, and he the fortress of salvations of his Messiah. Save thy people and bless thine inheritance, and feed them and lift them up even forever.

To the overseer of the pipes; chanting of David. Give ear to my sayings, O Jehovah; attend to my cry. Attend to the voice of my supplication, my King and my God: for to thee will I pray. O Jehovah, the morning thou wilt hear my voice; the morning I will set in order to thee, and I will look about.

To thee, O Jehovah, will I call, and to Jehovah will I make supplication. What the profit in my blood in my going down to the pit? shall the dust praise thee? shall it announce thy truth? Hear, O Jehovah, and pity me: O Jehovah, be a helper to me.

Of the understanding to David; a prayer in his being in the cave. With my voice I will cry to Jehovah; with my voice I will entreat to Jehovah. I will pour out before him my complaint; I will announce my straits before him. In my spirit languishing upon me, and thou knewest my beaten paths. In the way which I shall go they hid a snare for me.read more.
Looking upon the right hand, and seeing, and none caring for me: flight perished from me; none sought for my soul I cried to thee, O Jehovah: I said, Thou my refuge, my portion in the land of the living. Attend to my cry, for I languished greatly: deliver me from those pursuing me, for they were strengthened above me. Bring forth my soul out of prison to praise thy name: the just shall surround upon me; for thou wilt benefit to me.

And he went into the desert the way of a day, and he will come and sit under one broom-tree: and he will ask for his soul to die: and he will say, Much now, O Jehovah, Take my soul, for I am not good above my fathers.

Thou knewest, O Jehovah: remember me, and review me, and avenge for me from him pursuing me; not for being slow of thy wrath wilt thou take me away; know, I suffered reproach for thee. Thy words were found, and eating them; and thy word will be to me for the gladness and for the joy of my heart: for thy name was called upon me, Jehovah the God of armies. I sat not in the assembly of those mocking, and I will not exult; from the face of thy hand I sat alone, for thou didst fill me with anger.read more.
Wherefore was my pain everlasting and my blow incurable, refusing to be healed? Being, wilt thou be to me as falsehood, the waters were not faithful?

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.

And having gone forward a little, he fell upon the earth and prayed that, if it be possible, the hour might pass away from him. And he said, Abba, Father, all things possible to thee; turn away this cup from me: but not what I will, but what thou.

Saying, Father, If thou art willing, turn aside this cup from me: but not my will, but thine, be done. And a messenger was seen to him from heaven, strengthening him. And being in a violent struggle, he prayed more intently: and his sweat was as clots of blood coming down upon the earth.

And he will say, Jehovah, God of lord Abraham, light upon my face this day, and do kindness with lord Abraham. Behold, I stand at the fountain of waters, and the daughters of the men of the city come forth to draw water. And it shall be the girl to whom saying to her, incline now thy bucket, and I will drink; and she said, Drink, and I will also give thy camels to drink; thou didst appoint for thy servant Isaak; and by it I shall know that thou didst kindness with my lord.

And it will be after the death of Joshua, and the sons of Israel will ask of Jehovah, saying, Who will go up for us against the Canaanites in the beginning to war against them? And Jehovah will say, Judah shall go up: behold, I gave the land into his hand.

And Gideon will say to God, If thou art saving Israel by my hand, as thou spakest, Behold me putting a fleece of wool in the threshing-floor, and if the dew shall be upon the fleece only, and upon all the earth dryness, and I knew that thou wilt save Israel by my hand. as thou spakest And it will be so: and he will rise early upon the morrow, and he will press the fleece together, and the dew will press out from the fleece, a bowl full of water.read more.
And Gideon will say to God, Thine anger will not kindle against me, and I will speak but this once: I will try now only this once upon the fleece; there shall be dryness to the fleece alone, and upon all the earth shall be dew. And God will do so in that night: and there will be dryness to the fleece only, and upon all the earth was dew.

And Saul will say to Jehovah the God of Israel, Give the truth. And Jonathan will be taken, and Saul: and the people will come forth.

And it will be after this, and David will ask in Jehovah, saying, Shall I go up into one of the cities of Judah? and Jehovah will say to him, Go up. And David will say, Whither shall I go up? and he will say, To Hebron.

And David will yet ask in God: and God will say to him, Thou shalt not go up after them; turn about from off them, and go to them from the front of the weepings. And it will be in thy hearing a voice of the goings in the heads of the weepings, then thou shall go forth in war: for God will go forth before thee to strike the camp of the rovers.

In those days Hezekiah was sick to death; and Isaiah son of Amos the prophet will come in to him, and he will say to him, Thus said Jehovah, Command to thy house, for thou art dying, and thou shalt not live. And he will turn his face to the wall and pray, saying, O Jehovah, remember now how I went before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and I did the good in thine eyes. And Hezekiah will weep a great weeping.read more.
And it will be Isaiah went not forth to the city of the middle, and the word of Jehovah was to him, saying, Turn back and say to Hezekiah the leader of my people, Thus said Jehovah, God of David thy father, I heard thy prayer, I saw thy tears: behold me healing thee: in the third day thou shalt go up to the house of Jehovah. And I added to thy days fifteen years; and from the hand of the king of Assur I will deliver thee and this city; and I protected this city for my sake, and for sake of David my servant And Isaiah will say, Take a round mass of figs. And they will take and put upon the burning sore, and he will live. And Hezekiah will say to Isaiah, What the sign that Jehovah will heal me, and I went up in the third day to the house of Jehovah? And Isaiah will say, This the sign to thee from Jehovah, that Jehovah will do the word which he spake: the shadow going ten steps, or shall it turn back ten steps? And Hezekiah will say, A light thing to the shadow to bow ten steps: nay, for the shadow shall turn back-wards ten steps. And Isaiah the prophet will call to Jehovah, and he will turn back the shadow in the steps which went down, in the steps of Ahaz, backwards ten degrees

In those days Hezekiah was sick to death. And Isaiah son of Amos, the prophet, will come in to him, and say to him, Thus said Jehovah, Command to thy house, for thou diest, and shalt not live. And Hezekiah will turn his face to the wall and pray to Jehovah. And he will say, O Jehovah, remember now how I went before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and I did the good in thine eyes: And Hezekiah will weep a great weeping.read more.
And the word of Jehovah will be to Isaiah, saying, Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus said Jehovah, the God of David thy father, I heard thy prayer; and I saw thy tears: behold, I will add to thy days fifteen years. And I will deliver thee and this city from the hand of the king of Assur: and I covered over this city. And this to thee the sign from Jehovah that Jehovah will do this word which he spake: Behold me turning back the shadow of the steps which will go down in the steps of Ahaz in the sun, backward ten steps. And the sun will turn back ten steps in the steps which it will go down. The writing to Hezekiah king of Judah in his being sick, and he will live from his sickness: I said in the quiet of my days, I shall go to the gates of hades: I was missed the remainder of my years.

And she bitter of soul, and she will pray to Jehovah, and weeping, she will weep. And she will vow a vow, and say, Jehovah of armies, if seeing, thou wilt see the affliction of thy servant and remember me, and thou wilt not forget thy servant, and give to thy servant seed of men, and I gave him to Jehovah all the days of his life, and a razor shall not come up upon his head.

And Isaak will supplicate to Jehovah for his wife, because she was barren: and Jehovah will be supplicated for him, and Rebekah his wife will conceive.

And God will listen to Leah, and she will conceive and bear to Jacob the fifth son.

And it will be in these many days, and the king of Egypt will die: and the sons of Israel will groan, from the work; and they will cry out, and their supplication will go up to God from the work.

And our fathers will go down to Egypt and will dwell in Egypt many days; and the Egyptians will do evil to us and to our fathers. And we shall cry to Jehovah, and he will hear our voice, and he will send a messenger and he will bring us forth out of Egypt: and behold us in Kadesh, a city the end of thy boundary.

And the Egyptians did us evil, and humbled us, and they will distribute to us hard service. And we shall cry to Jehovah the God of our fathers, and Jehovah will hear our voice, and will see our affliction and our labor and our oppression. And Jehovah will bring us forth out of Egypt with a strong hand and with an extended arm, and with great appearance and with signs and with wonders;

And the sons of Israel will cry to Jehovah, and Jehovah will raise up a saviour to the sons of Israel, and he will save them, Othniel, son of Kenaz, Caleb's brother younger than he.

And the sons of Israel will cry to Jehovah; for nine hundred chariots of iron to him; and he pressed the sons of Israel by force twenty years.

And it will be when the sons of Israel cried to Jehovah on account of Midian, And Jehovah will send forth a man, a prophet, to the sons of Israel, and he will say to them, Thus said Jehovah the God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and I will bring you out of the house of servants; And I will deliver you from the hand of Egypt, and from the hand of all pressing you, and I will drive them out from your face, and I will give to you their land;read more.
And saying to you, I am Jehovah your God; ye shall not fear the Gods of the Amorites which ye will dwelll in their land: and ye heard not to my voice.

When Jacob came into Egypt, and your fathers will cry to Jehovah, and Jehovah will send Moses and Aaron, and they will bring forth your fathers from Egypt, and they will turn them back into this place.

Awake, why wilt thou sleep, O Jehovah? awake, thou wilt not reject forever. Why wilt thou hide thy face? wilt thou forget our affliction and our oppression? For our soul was bowed down to the dust: our belly was glued to the earth.read more.
Arise a help for us, and redeem us for sake of thy mercy.

Thou wilt not remember against us former iniquities: thy compassions shall quickly anticipate us, for we were greatly weak: Help us, O God; save us, for the word of the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and cover our sins for sake Of thy name.

O Jehovah, God of armies, how long didst thou smoke against the prayer of thy people? Thou gavest them to eat the bread of tears, and thou wilt give them to drink in tears by measure. Thou wilt set us a strife to our neighbors, and our enemies will deride to themselves.read more.
O God of armies, turn us back and cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

Turn us back, O God of our salvation, and annul thine anger with us. Wilt thou be angry with us forever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to generation and generation? Wilt thou not turn back? wilt thou give us life? and thy people shall rejoice in thee.read more.
Cause us, O Jehovah, to see thy mercy, and thou wilt give to us thy salvation.

And I shall call a fast there, upon the river Ahava, to humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us and for our little ones, and for all our substance. For I was ashamed to ask from the king strength and horsemen to help us from the enemy in the way: for we said to the king, saying, The hand of our God upon all seeking him for good; and his strength and his anger against all forsaking him. And we will fast and seek of our God concerning this; and he will be entreated for us.

O our God, wilt thou not judge against them? for no power in us before this great multitude coming against us; and we shall not know what we shall do: for our eyes are upon thee. And all Judah standing before Jehovah, also their little ones, their wives and their sons.

And as Ezra prayed, and as he confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there were gathered to him from Israel a very great convocation of men and women and children: for the people wept a great weeping.

Remember this, the enemy reproached Jehovah, and the foolish people despised thy name. Thou wilt not give the soul of thy turtle-dove to the beast: the life of thy poor thou wilt not forget forever. Look to thy covenant: for the dark places of the earth were filled with habitations of violence.read more.
The poor one shall not turn back ashamed: the humble and the needy shall praise thy name. Arise, O God, contend thy contention: remember thy reproach from the foolish all the day. Thou wilt not forget the voice of thine adversaries: the pride of them rising up against thee going up always

Then Daniel departed to his house, and made known the word to Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah his companions: And for seeking companions from before the God of the heavens concerning this secret: that Daniel and his companions shall not be destroyed with the rest of the wise of Babel.

And when they came in, they went up into an upper room, where were remaining also Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James of Alpheus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas of James. All these were persevering unanimously in prayer and supplication, with women, and Mary mother of Jesus, with his brethren.

And they were persevering in the teaching of the sent, and in mutual participation, and breaking of bread, and prayers.

And the day of the sabbaths we came out of the city by the river, where prayer was customary to be; and having sat down, we spake to the women come together.

And having said these, having placed his knees, he prayed with them all.

And it was when we accomplished the days, having come out we went; all sending us forward, with wives and children, even to without the city: and having placed the knees upon the seashore, we prayed.

And they, having heard, lifted up the voice unanimously to God, and said, Sovereign, thou God having made heaven, and earth, and sea, and all things which in them: Having said by the mouth of David thy servant, That why were the nations insolent, and did the people practise vain things Kings of the earth stood up, and rulers were gathered together upon one and the same, against the Lord, and against his Christ.read more.
For against the truth were they gathered together against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the nations and peoples of Israel, To do what thy hands and thy counsel predestinated to be. And now, Lord, look upon their threats: and give to thy servants, with all freedom of speech to speak thy word, In thy stretching out thy hand for healing; and signs and wonders to be for the name of thine holy child Jesus. And they having prayed, the place was shaken in which they were gathered together; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and spake the word of God with freedom of speech.

Then having fasted and prayed, and put hands upon them, they let go.

And at midnight Paul and Silas praying, praised God: and the imprisoned heard them.

Chanting to David. O Jahovah, hear my prayer, give ear to my supplication: in thy faithfulness answer me; in thy justice.

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

For indeed will God dwell with man upon the earth? Behold, the heavens and the heavens of the heavens will not contain thee; much less this house which I built Turn to the prayer of thy servant and to his supplication, O Jehovah my God, to hear to the cry and to the prayer which thy servant prays before thee:

Song of ascensions. From the depths I called thee, O Jehovah. O Jehovah, hear to my voice: thine ears shall be attentive to the voice of my supplication.

And, behold, two blind sitting by the way, having heard that Jesus passes by, cried out, saying, Pity us, O Lord, son of David. And the crowd censured them that they should be silent: but they cried the more, saying, Pity us, O Lord, son of David.