43 Bible Verses about Prayerlessness
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To the overseer; of David. The fool said in his heart, No God. They were corrupted, they made their; works abominable, none doing good. Jehovah looked down from the heavens upon the sons of men, to see is there he understanding, seeking God. All turned away together, they were corrupted: none doing good, not even one.read more.
Did not the workers of vanity know? eating my people they ate bread; they called not Jehovah.
To the overseer upon the stringed instrument: instruction to David. The fool said in his heart, No God. They were corrupted; they made iniquity abominable: none doing good. God from the heavens looked forth upon the sons of man to see if there is he understanding, seeking God. They all drew back: together they were corrupt; none doing good, not even one.read more.
Did not those transgressing know any thing? eating up my people, they ate bread: they called not upon God.
What the Almighty that we shall serve him? and what shall we be profited if we shall supplicate to him?
Thus said Jehovah: Cursed the man who shall trust in man, and set flesh his arm, and shall turn away his heart from Jehovah.
She heard not to the voice: she received not instruction; she trusted not in Jehovah; she drew not near to her God.
They will sacrifice to demons, not God; Gods they have not known them New ones came out from the midst; Your fathers not having feared them. Thou wilt forsake the Rock begetting thee, And thou wilt forget God setting thee free.
Thus said Jehovah, What iniquity found your fathers in me that they removed far off from me, and went after vanity, and they became vain? And they said not, Where is Jehovah bringing us up out of the land of Egypt, causing us to go through the desert into a sterile land and a pit, through a land of drought and the shadow of death, through a land not a man passed through it, and not a man dwelt there?
And Jehovah God will call to the man, and will say to him, Where art thou? And he will will say, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I shall be afraid, because I am naked, and I will hide myself. And he will say, Who showed to thee that thou art naked? Of the tree which I charged thee not to eat, didst thou eat from it?read more.
And the man will say, The woman which thou gavest with me, she gave to me from the tree, and I shall eat
And the word of Jehovah shall be to Jonah, son of Amittai, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and call against it; for their evil came up before me. And Jonah will rise up to flee to Tarshish from the face of Jehovah, and he will go down to Joppa; and he will find a ship going to Tarshish, and be will give his hire, and he will go down in it to go with them to Tarshish from the face of Jehovah.read more.
And Jehovah cast down a great wind upon the sea, and there will be a great storm upon the sea, and the ship was thought to be broken. And the seamen will fear, and they will cry each to his God, and they cast down the vessels which were in the ship into the sea to lighten from them. And Jonah went down to the sides of the ship, and he will lie down and snore. And the chief sailor will draw near to him and say to him, What to thee, thou snoring? Arise, and call to thy God; perhaps thy God will work for us and we shall not perish.
And having risen from prayer, having come to his disciples, he found them sleeping from grief;
And he comes to his disciples, and finds them sleeping, and says to Peter, So were ye not able to watch with me one hour?
And he comes, and finds them sleeping, and says to Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldeat thou not watch one Hour?
And having gone he finds them again sleeping: for their eyes were loaded. And having left them, having gone away again, he prayed of the third time, speaking the same word. Then comes he to his disciples, and says to them, Sleep for the remaining time, and take rest: behold, the hour has drawn near, and the Son of man is delivered into the hands of the sinful.
And having turned back, he found them again sleeping, (for their eyes were loaded,) and they knew not what they might answer him. And he comes the third time, and says to them, Sleep the remaining time, and take rest: it is sufficient, the hour has come; behold, the Son of man is delivered into the hands of the sinful.
Men, likewise, dwelling together according to knowledge, as showing honour to the weaker vessel, pertaining to woman, and as co-heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers be not cut off.
And Joshua will send men from Jericho to Ai, which is by the house of Ain, from the east, to the house of God, and he will say to them, saying, Go up and spy the land. And the men will go up and will spy Ai And they will turn back to Joshua, and will say to him, All the people shall not go up; about two thousand men or about three thousand men shall go up and smite Ai: thou shalt not weary there all the people for they few. And they will go up there from the people about three thousand men: and they will flee from the face of the men of Ai.read more.
And the men of Ai will smite of them about thirty and six men; and they will pursue them before the gate, even to Shebarim; and they will smite them in going down, and the heart of the people will melt and will be as water.
And he will speak to him, Thus said Jehovah, Because thou didst send messengers to seek in Baal the fly god of Ekron, Is it because there is no God. in Israel to seek in his word? for this, the bed where thou wentest up there, thou shalt not come down from it, for dying, thou shalt die.
And Moab broke with Israel after Ahab died. And Ahaziah will fall through the lattice in his upper chamber which was in Shomeron, and he will be sick: and he will send messengers, and say to them, Go seek in Baal the fly god of Ekron, if I shall live from this disease. And the messenger of Jehovah spake to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to the meeting of the messengers of the king of Shomeron, and speak to them, Is it because there is no God in Israel ye go to seek in Baal the fly god of Ekron?read more.
And for this, thus said Jehovah, The bed where thou wentest up there, thou shalt not come down from it, but dying, thou shalt die, and Elijah will go And the messengers will turn back to him, and he will say to them, Why this ye turned back? And they will say to him, A man came up to our meeting, and he will say to us, Go, turn back to the king who sent you, and speak to him, Thus said Jehovah, Is it because there is no God in Israel thou sentest to seek in Baal the fly god of Ekron? for this the bed where thou wentest up there, thou shalt not come down from it, for dying, thou shalt die.
And thou calledst me not, O Jacob; and thou overt weary of me, O Israel.
Your new moons and your appointments my soul hated; they were for a burden upon me; I was wearied to lift up.
And none calling upon thy name, none rousing himself to take hold upon thee: for thou hiddest thy face from us, and thou wilt melt us by the hand of our iniquities.
Wo to sons turning aside, says Jehovah, to make counsel and not from me; and to cover a covering, and not my spirit so as to add sin upon sin: Going to come down to Egypt, and my mouth they asked not; to be strengthened by the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt
Wo to those going down to Egypt for help; and they will look upon horses, and trust upon chariots, because they are many; and upon horsemen because they were strong greatly; and they looked not upon the Holy One of Israel, and sought not Jehovah.
As that written in the law of Moses all this evil came upon us, and we supplicated not the face of Jehovah our God to turn back from our iniquities and to understand in thy truth.
And the people turned not back even to him smiting them, and Jehovah of armies they sought not
O Jehovah, are not thine eyes upon faithfulness? thou didst smite them, and they were not pained; thou didst consume them, they refused to take instruction: they made their faces firm above the rock; they refused to turn back.
And I sought from them a man to wall in the wall, and to stand in the breach before my face for the land, not to destroy it: and I found not
If any remain not in me, he was cast forth as the branch, and was dried up; and they gather them together, and cast into the fire, and they are burned.
For behold, they being far off from thee shall perish: thou didst lay waste all committing fornication from thee.
And I stretched out my hand upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I cut off from this place the remnant of Baal, with the name of the obscurations with the priests And those worshiping upon the roofs to the army of the heavens, and worshiping, swearing to Jehovah, and swearing to Malcham; And those departing from after Jehovah, and who sought not Jehovah, and asked not for him.
For the shepherds were brutish, and they sought not Jehovah: for this they considered not, and all their flock was scattered.
Then began he to anathematize, and to swear, That I know not the man: and quickly the cock uttered a sound.
And he began to anathematize and swear, That I know not this man of whom ye speak.
And Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest. And immediately, he yet speaking, the cock uttered a sound.
Ye eagerly desire, and have not: ye kill, and are zealous, and cannot succeed: ye fight and wage war, and ye have not, because ye ask not.
And they will reject his laws and his covenant which he cut out with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified in them; and they will go after vanity, and they will be vain, and after the nations which were round about them which Jehovah commanded them not to do as they.
Thus said Jehovah, What iniquity found your fathers in me that they removed far off from me, and went after vanity, and they became vain?
Also I, far be it to me sinning against Jehovah ceasing to pray for you: and I taught you in the good and straight way.
Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, if it remain not in the vine; so neither ye, if ye remain not in me. I am the vine, ye the branches: he remaining in me, and I in him, he bears much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
Whence wars and fights among you? are they not hence, out of your sensual pleasures making war in your members Ye eagerly desire, and have not: ye kill, and are zealous, and cannot succeed: ye fight and wage war, and ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask wickedly that ye might expend upon your sensual pleasures.read more.
Adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is the enmity of God? whoever therefore would wish to be the friend of the world is set the enemy of God.
