37 Bible Verses about Prayer, Offered With
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With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints,
But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.
let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
I sought Your favor with all my heart;
Be gracious to me according to Your word.
These things I remember and I pour out my soul within me.
For I used to go along with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God,
With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.
You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
What is the outcome then? I will pray with the spirit and I will pray with the mind also; I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with the mind also.
Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call;
This I know, that God is for me.
This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.
saying, “Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done.”
A Prayer of David.
Hear a just cause, O Lord, give heed to my cry;
Give ear to my prayer, which is not from deceitful lips.
Therefore I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and dissension.
and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
When he was in distress, he entreated the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
The Lord is near to all who call upon Him,
To all who call upon Him in truth.
God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
let Your ear now be attentive and Your eyes open to hear the prayer of Your servant which I am praying before You now, day and night, on behalf of the sons of Israel Your servants, confessing the sins of the sons of Israel which we have sinned against You; I and my father’s house have sinned.
For the choir director; on stringed instruments. A Maskil of David.
Give ear to my prayer, O God;
And do not hide Yourself from my supplication.
Give heed to me and answer me;
I am restless in my complaint and am surely distracted,
For the choir director; on a stringed instrument. A Psalm of David.
Hear my cry, O God;
Give heed to my prayer.
Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my distress;
Incline Your ear to me;
In the day when I call answer me quickly.
That Your beloved may be delivered,
Save with Your right hand, and answer me!
A Psalm of David.
Hear my prayer, O Lord,
Give ear to my supplications!
Answer me in Your faithfulness, in Your righteousness!
Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
as we night and day keep praying most earnestly that we may see your face, and may complete what is lacking in your faith?
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.
Then he said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.” But he said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
I tell you, even though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will get up and give him as much as he needs. “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
Now He was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart, saying, “In a certain city there was a judge who did not fear God and did not respect man. There was a widow in that city, and she kept coming to him, saying, ‘Give me legal protection from my opponent.’read more.
For a while he was unwilling; but afterward he said to himself, ‘Even though I do not fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow bothers me, I will give her legal protection, otherwise by continually coming she will wear me out.’” And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge *said; now, will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry to Him day and night, and will He delay long over them?
Now she who is a widow indeed and who has been left alone, has fixed her hope on God and continues in entreaties and prayers night and day.
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.