37 Bible Verses about Prayer, Offered With

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Lamentations 3:41

Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto the God that is in heaven.

Psalm 119:58

I make my humble petition in thy presence with my whole heart; O be merciful unto me, according unto thy word.

Job 11:13

"If thou hadst now a right heart, and liftest up thine hands toward him;

Psalm 42:4

Now when I think thereupon, I pour out my heart by myself; for I went with the multitude, and brought them forth into the house of God, in the voice of praise and thanksgiving, among such as keep holy-day.

John 4:22-24

Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship. For salvation cometh of the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the father in spirit, and in truth. For verily, such the father requireth to worship him. God is a spirit, and they that worship him, must worship him in spirit, and truth."

1 Corinthians 14:15

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

Psalm 56:9

Whensoever I call upon thee, then shall mine enemies be put to flight; whereby I know that thou art my God.

Psalm 17:1

{A Prayer of David} Hear the right, O LORD; consider my complaint, and hearken unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

2 Chronicles 33:12

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

Nehemiah 1:6

Let thine ears mark and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray now before thee day and night for the children of Israel thy servants, and knowledge the sins of the children of Israel, which we have committed against thee. And I and my father's house have sinned also.

Psalm 55:1-2

{To the Chanter, in Neginoth, an instruction of David} Hear my prayer, O God, and hide not thyself from my petition. Take heed unto me, and hear me, how piteously I mourn and complain.

Psalm 61:1

{To the Chanter, upon Neginoth, of David} Hear my crying, O God, give heed unto my prayer.

Psalm 102:2

Hide not thy face from me in the time of my trouble; incline thine ear unto me when I call. O hear me, and that right soon.

Psalm 108:6

that thy beloved may be delivered; let thy righthand save them, and hear thou me.

Psalm 143:1

{A Psalm of David} Hear my prayer, O LORD, and consider my desire; hearken unto me for thy truth and righteousness' sake.

1 Thessalonians 3:10

while we night and day pray exceedingly, that we might see you presently, and might fulfill that which is lacking in your faith.

James 5:17

Elijah was a man, mortal even as we are, and he prayed in his prayer, that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

Genesis 32:26

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

Luke 11:8-9

I say unto you, Though he would not arise and give him, because he is his friend: Yet because of his importunity he would rise and give him as many as he needed. "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.

Luke 18:1-7

He put forth a similitude unto them, signifying that men ought always to pray, and not to be weary, saying, "There was a Judge in a certain city, which feared not God neither regarded man. And there was a certain widow in the same city, which came unto him saying, 'Avenge me of mine adversary.'read more.
And he would not for a while. But afterward he said unto himself, 'Though I fear not God, nor care for man, yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her: lest at the last she come, and hag on me.'" And the Lord said, "Hear what the unrighteous judge sayeth. And shall not God avenge his elect, which cry night and day unto him? Yea though he defer them:

1 Timothy 5:5

She that is a very widow, and friendless, putteth her trust in God, and continueth in supplication and prayer night and day:

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