15 Bible Verses about Prayerlessness

there is none that understands, there is none that seeks God;

And rising from prayer, and coming to the disciples, he found them sleeping from grief,

And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, Are you so unable to watch with me one hour?

And he came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, Simon, do you sleep? Could you not watch one hour?

And he came and found them sleeping again, for their eyes were heavy. And leaving them, again he went away and prayed, saying the same words. Then he came to the disciples and said to them, Do you sleep still and take your rest? Behold the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is delivered into the hands of sinners.

And again coming he found them sleeping; for their eyes were heavy; and they knew not what to answer him. And he came a third time, and said to them, Sleep henceforth, and be refreshed. It is enough; the hour has come. Behold, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners!

In like manner let the husbands [do], living together in knowledge with the wife as with a vessel of less strength, deeming them precious, co-heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

If any one continues not in me he is cast without as a branch, and is withered; and they collect them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

Then he began to curse and swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately a cock crew;

And he cursed and swore, I know not this man of whom you speak.

But Peter said, Man, I know not what you say. And immediately, while he was yet speaking, a cock crew.

Then Peter denied again; and immediately a cock crew.

You desire and have not; you kill, and envy, and cannot obtain; you fight and carry on war. You have not, because you do not ask;

continue in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it continues in the vine, so you cannot, unless you continue in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. He that continues in me and I in him, this man bears much fruit; for separated from me, you can do nothing.

Whence come wars and contentions among you? Come they not thence, from your pleasures that war in your members? You desire and have not; you kill, and envy, and cannot obtain; you fight and carry on war. You have not, because you do not ask; you ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, to expend on your pleasures.read more.
Adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity against God? Whoever therefore wishes to be a friend of the world, is made an enemy of God.