32 Bible Verses about Prayerfulness

She was very old; from girlhood she had lived seven years with a husband, and now had been a widow eighty years. She never left the temple, but continued to worship all day and all night with fastings and prayers.

But a woman who is really a widow and lives alone has fixed her hope on God, and night and day devotes herself to prayers and entreaties,

I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in union with me and I in union with him will bear abundant fruit, because you cannot do anything cut off from union with me. If anyone does not remain in union with me, he is thrown away as a mere branch and is dried up; then it is picked up and thrown into the fire and burned up. If you remain in union with me and my words remain in you, you may ask whatever you please and you shall have it.read more.
By your continuously bearing abundant fruit and in this way proving yourselves to be real disciples of mine, my Father is glorified.

And whenever you pray, you must not keep on repeating set phrases, as the heathen do, for they suppose that they will be heard in accordance with the length of their prayers,

men who eat up widows' houses and to cover it up make long prayers. They will get a much heavier sentence!"

men who eat up widows' houses and to cover it up make long prayers! They will receive a much heavier sentence."

You must all keep watching and praying that you may not be exposed to temptation. Man's spirit is willing but human nature is weak."

You must all keep watching and praying that you may not be exposed to temptation. Man's spirit is willing but human nature is weak."

Now when He reached the spot, He said to them, "Continue to pray that you may not be subjected to temptation."

But ever be watching and always praying, so that you may have strength to escape all this that is going to take place, and so you may take your stand in the presence of the Son of Man."

You must persevere in prayer and by this means stay wide awake when you give thanks.

Now He told them the following story to show how necessary it is for people always to pray and never to give up:

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

Never stop praying.

But the end of everything on earth is near. So be serious and sober minded, that you may give yourselves to prayer.

Elijah was a man with feelings just like ours, and yet he earnestly prayed for it not to rain, and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. Then again he prayed, and the heavens yielded rain and the earth produced its crops.

For during His human life He offered up prayers and entreaties, crying aloud with tears to Him who was always able to save Him out of death, and because of His beautiful spirit of worship His prayer was heard.

But Jesus Himself continued His habit of retiring to lonely spots and praying.

So they slipped the stone aside. And Jesus looked up and said, "Father, I thank you for listening to me; yes, I knew that you always listen to me. But I have said this for the sake of the crowd that is standing by, that they may come to believe that you have sent me."

With one mind they were all continuing to devote themselves to prayer, with the women and Mary and His brothers.

And they devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to fellowship with one another, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

When they were turned loose, the apostles went back to their companions and told them what the high priests and elders had said to them. When they heard this, with one united prayer to God they said: "O Lord, you are the Maker of heaven, earth, and sea, and everything that is in them, and the One who spoke thus through the Holy Spirit by the lips of our forefather David, your servant: 'Why did the heathen rage, and the peoples make vain designs?read more.
The kings of the earth took their stand. The rulers met against the Lord, and too, against His Christ.' "For in this city they actually met against your holy Servant Jesus, whom you had consecrated -- Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the heathen and the peoples of Israel, to do all that your hand and will had predetermined to take place. And now, Lord, give attention to their threats and help your slaves with perfect courage to continue to speak your message, by stretching out your hand to cure people and to perform signs and wonders by the authority of your holy Servant Jesus." When they had prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and continued courageously to speak God's message.

while we will go on devoting ourselves to prayer and the word of God."

So Peter was being kept in prison, but earnest prayer to God for him was persistently made by the church.

This is why, ever since I heard of it, I have never ceased praying for you and asking God to fill you, through full wisdom and spiritual insight, with a clear knowledge of His will,

Indeed, my witness is God, whom I serve in my spirit by telling the good news about His Son, that I never fail to mention you every time I pray, always entreating God that somehow by His will I may some day at last succeed in getting to see you.

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

and always do it with joy in every entreaty I make for all of you,

as night and day I continue to pray with deepest earnestness and keenest eagerness that I may see your faces and round out to completeness what is lacking in your faith?

With this in view we are always praying for you too, that our God may make you worthy of His call, and by His power fully satisfy your every desire for goodness, and complete every activity of your faith,

I thank God, whom I worship, as my forefathers did, with a clear conscience, as I ceaselessly remember you in my prayers. Because I remember the tears you shed for me, I am always longing night and day