37 Bible Verses about Prayer, Offered With

Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.

But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.

If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;

When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.

In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.

And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:

Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.

{A Prayer of David.} Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.

{To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David.} Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;

{To the chief Musician upon Neginah, A Psalm of David.} Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.

Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.

That thy beloved may be delivered: save with thy right hand, and answer me.

{A Psalm of David.} Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth. And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.read more.
And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me. And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith. And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?

Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.

Pray without ceasing.

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.