32 Bible Verses about Prayerfulness

and she was a widow of about eighty-four years, and she departed not from the temple, but served, day and night, with fastings and prayers.

But she that is a widow indeed, and left alone, trusts in God, and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.

I am the vine, you are the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; for apart from me you can do nothing. If any one abide not in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and withers; and such are gathered, and thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done for you.read more.
In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and in this you will be my disciples.

But when you pray, do not use vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they will be heard for their many words.

who eat up the houses of widows, and, as a pretext, make long prayers: these shall receive more abundant condemnation.

who eat up the houses of widows, and, for a pretext, make long prayers. These shall receive the greater condemnation.

Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit is, willing, but the flesh is weak.

Watch, and pray, all of you, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

And when he came to the place, he said to them: Pray, that you enter not into temptation.

Watch, therefore, and pray at all times, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Persevere in prayer, and be watchful in the same with thanksgiving;

And he spoke a parable to them, that they ought always to pray, and not to become weary,

And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sung a hymn to God; and the prisoners were listening to them.

pray without ceasing;

But the end of all things is at hand; be sober-minded, therefore, and watchful, that you may pray.

Elijah was a man with passions like our own; and he earnestly prayed that it might not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. And he prayed again; and the heavens gave rain, and the earth brought forth its fruit.

In the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears, to him that was able to save him from death, and having been heard with respect to that which he feared,

And he withdrew to the deserts and prayed.

Then they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted -up his eyes and said: Father, I thank thee, that thou hast heard me. I know, in deed, that thou dost always hear me. But for the sake of the multitude who stand around me, I have said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.

All these, with one mind, continued in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

And they attended constantly to the teaching of the apostles, and the fellowship, and the breaking of bread, and the prayers.

And having been released, they went to their own, and told all that the chief priests and elders had said to them. And when they heard it, they lifted up their voice with one consent to God, and said: Lord, thou art God, who didst make the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all things that are in them; who, by the mouth of David thy servant, didst say, Why did the heathen rage, and the people devise vain things?read more.
The kings of the land stood up, and the rulers met together against the Lord and against his anointed. For, in truth, against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, did meet together, to do whatever thy hand and thy counsel determined to be done. And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings, and grant to thy servants that they may speak thy word with all boldness, by stretching out thy hand to heal, that both signs and wonders may be done through the name of thy holy child Jesus. And when they had prayed, the place in which they were assembled was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and spoke the word of God with boldness.

but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.

Therefore, Peter was kept in prison; but fervent prayer to God was made for him by the church.

For this reason, we also, from the day in which we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to request that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that, without ceasing, I make mention of you, always in my prayers making request, that, if possible, I may at length have a prosperous journey, by the will of God to come to you.

do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,

always in every supplication of mine for you all, making my supplication with joy

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

In order to which, we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of this calling, and may fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power,

I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, after the custom of my forefathers, that, without ceasing, I have remembrance of you in my prayers night and day,