15 Bible Verses about Prayerlessness

there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks out God;

And having risen from prayer, having come to His disciples, He found them sleeping on account of weariness,

And He comes to the disciples, and finds them sleeping, and says to Peter, Were you not able to watch with me one hour?

And He comes, and finds them sleeping, and He says to Peter, Simon, do you sleep? Were you not able to watch one hour?

And having come He finds them again sleeping, for their eyes were heavy. And leaving them, having gone away, He prayed again the third time, speaking the same word. Then He comes to His disciples, and says to them, Sleep on, and take your rest, behold, the hour is nigh, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners:

And turning, He found them again sleeping, for their eyes were heavy; and they did not know what they might respond to Him. And He comes the third time, and says to them; Sleep on, and take your rest: it is over; the hour is come; behold, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners:

Likewise, ye husbands, dwelling with the wife according to knowledge, as the weaker vessel, extending to them honor, as indeed the equal heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers should not be hindered.

If any one may not abide in me, he is cast out as a branch, and withered; and they gather it, and cast it into the fire, and it is burnt.

Then he began to anathematize and to swear, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew.

But he began to anathematize, and to swear, I know not this man of whom you speak.

And Peter said, Man, I know Him not. And immediately, he yet speaking, the cock crew.

Then Peter again denied, and immediately the cock crew.

You lust, and you have not: you murder, and you strive, and you are not able to obtain: you fight and you war; and have not, because you do not ask:

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch is not able to produce fruit of itself, unless it may abide in the vine; so you are not able, unless you may abide in me. I am the vine, and ye are the branches. The one abiding in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit: because you are not able to do anything without me.

Whence come wars and whence come battles within you? are they not from thence, from your pleasures warring in your members? You lust, and you have not: you murder, and you strive, and you are not able to obtain: you fight and you war; and have not, because you do not ask: you ask, and you receive not, because you ask wickedly, that you may expend it in your pleasures.read more.
O adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? Whosoever therefore may wish to be the friend of the world renders himself the enemy of God.