30 Bible Verses about Prayerfulness

and she had been a widow until she was now eighty-four. She never left the Temple, but worshipped night and day with fasting and prayer.

But a woman who is really a widow, and has no children, has fixed her hope on God, and devotes herself to prayers and entreaties night and day.

I am the vine, you are the branches. Anyone who remains united to me, with me united to him, will be very fruitful, for you cannot do anything apart from me. Anyone who does not remain united to me is thrown away like a branch and withers up, and they gather them and throw them into the fire and burn them. If you remain united to me and my words remain in your hearts, ask for whatever you please and you shall have it.read more.
When you are very fruitful and show yourselves to be disciples of mine, my Father is honored.

And when you pray, do not repeat empty phrases as the heathen do, for they imagine that their prayers will be heard if they use words enough.

You must all watch, and pray that you may not be exposed to trial! One's spirit is eager, but flesh and blood are weak!"

You must all watch, and pray that you may not be subjected to trial. One's spirit is eager, but human nature is weak."

And when he reached the spot, he said to them, "Pray that you may not be subjected to trial."

But you must be vigilant and always pray that you may succeed in escaping all this that is going to happen, and in standing in the presence of the Son of Man."

Be persistent in prayer and wide awake about it when you give thanks.

He gave them an illustration to show that they must always pray and not give up,

But about midnight, as Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,

Never give up praying.

But the end of all things is near. Be serious and collected, therefore, and pray.

Elijah was a man like us, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and for three years and six months there was no rain in the land. Then he prayed again, and the heavens yielded rain and the earth produced crops.

For Jesus in his life on earth offered prayers and entreaties, crying aloud with tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and because of his piety his prayer was heard.

But Jesus himself would retire into the desert and pray.

So they moved the stone away. And Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you for listening to me, though I knew that you always listen to me. But I have said this for the sake of the people that are standing around me that they may believe that you have made me your messenger."

They were all devoting themselves with one mind to prayer, with the women and Mary, Jesus' mother, and his brothers.

And they devoted themselves to the teaching and the society of the apostles, the breaking of bread, and prayer.

After being released, the apostles went back to their friends, and told them what the high priests and members of the council had said to them. When they heard it, with one impulse they all raised their voices to God and said, "Master, it was you who made heaven, earth, and sea, and everything that is in them, and who said through the holy Spirit by the lips of our forefather David, your slave, " 'Why did the heathen rage, And the peoples form vain designs?read more.
The kings of the earth stood by, And the rulers assembled Against the Lord and against his Christ.' For they have assembled here in this city against your holy servant Jesus, whom you had consecrated??erod and Pontius Pilate, with the heathen and the peoples of Israel, to carry out what your hand and will had destined should happen. And now, Lord, take note of their threats, and give your slaves the power to utter your message fearlessly, when you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are done by the power of your holy servant Jesus." When they had prayed, the place where they were meeting shook, and they were all filled with the holy Spirit, and fearlessly uttered God's message.

while we devote ourselves to prayer and to delivering the message."

So Peter was kept in the jail, but the church was praying earnestly to God for him.

That is why, from the day I first heard of it, I have never given up praying for you and asking God to fill you, through full spiritual wisdom and insight, with a clear knowledge of what his will is,

As God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in spreading the good news of his Son, I never fail to mention you when I pray, and to ask that somehow by God's will I may some day at last succeed in reaching you.

never cease to thank God for you when I mention you in my prayers.

and always whenever I pray for you all I do it with joy,

as I pray night and day with intense earnestness that I may see your faces and supply what is lacking in your faith?

To this end we always pray for you too, asking our God to find you worthy of the call he has given you, and by his power to fulfil every desire you may have for goodness, and every effort of your faith,

I thank God, whom I, like my forefathers, worship with a clear conscience, when I remember you, as I constantly do, in my prayers.