37 Bible Verses about Prayer, Offered With
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praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,
But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.
let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
I entreat your favor with all my heart; be gracious to me according to your promise.
These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival.
You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."
What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also.
Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call. This I know, thatGod is for me.
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.
saying, "Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done."
Hear a just cause, O LORD; attend to my cry! Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit!
I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;
if 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 and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."
let your ear be attentive and your eyes open, to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for the people of Israel your servants, confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Even I and my father's house have sinned.
Give ear to my prayer, O God, and hide not yourself from my plea for mercy! Attend to me, and answer me; I am restless in my complaint and I moan,
Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress! Incline your ear to me; answer me speedily in the day when I call!
That your beloved ones may be delivered, give salvation by your right hand and answer me!
Hear my prayer, O LORD; give ear to my pleas for mercy! In your faithfulness answer me, in your righteousness!
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
as we pray most earnestly night and day that we may see you face to face and supply what is lacking in your faith?
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.
Then he said, "Let me go, for the day has broken." But Jacob said, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."
I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence he will rise and give him whatever he needs. And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. He said, "In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, 'Give me justice against my adversary.'read more.
For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.'" And the Lord said, "Hear what the unrighteous judge says. And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?
She who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day,
do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
