15 Bible Verses about Prayerlessness
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When he rose from prayer, and came to his disciples, he found them sleeping from sorrow.
Then he came to the disciples and found them sleeping; and he said to Peter, "So, could you not watch with me one hour?
Then he came and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, "Simon, are you asleep? Could you not watch one hour?
And again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy. So he left them, went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words. Then he came to the disciples and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.
And when he came again, he found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy; and they did not know what to answer him. Then he came the third time and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting? It is enough! The hour has come; behold, the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.
Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with honor as the weaker partner, since you are joint heirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
If anyone does not abide in me, he is like a branch that is cast away and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned.
Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, "I do not know the man." And immediately the rooster crowed.
But he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, "I do not know this man of whom you speak."
But Peter said, "Man, I do not know what you are saying!" Immediately, while he was still speaking, the rooster crowed.
Peter again denied it; and at once a rooster crowed.
You desire and do not have; so you kill. And you covet and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from me you can do nothing.
What causes quarrels and fights among you? Is it not your passions that are at war in your members? You desire and do not have; so you kill. And you covet and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.read more.
You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.