15 Bible Verses about Prayerlessness

No one understands, no one is searching for God;

When He rose from His prayer, He went to the disciples and found them asleep from sorrow.

Then He came back to the disciples and found them asleep. He said to Peter, "Could you not then watch with me a single hour?

And He went back and found them asleep, and He said to Peter, "Simon, are you asleep? Could you not watch a single hour?

He came back again and found them still sleeping, for their eyes were so heavy they could hardly hold them open. Then He left them again and prayed the third time, using the same words. After that He came back to the disciples and said to them: "Still sleeping! Still resting! See! The time has come for the Son of Man to be betrayed into the hands of sinful men!

When He went back again, He found them asleep again, for their eyes were so heavy they could hardly hold them open; and they did not know what answer to make Him. He came back the third time and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting? No more of that! The hour has come. See! The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinful men.

You married men, in the same way, must live with your wives in an intelligent consideration of them; you must show them deference, too, as the weaker sex, as they share with you the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

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.

Then he commenced cursing and swearing, "I do not know the man!" And at once a cock crowed.

Then he commenced cursing and swearing, "I do not know this man that you are talking about."

But Peter said, "Man, I do not know what you mean." And all at once, while he was still speaking, a cock crowed.

Then Peter again denied it, and at that moment a cock crowed.

You covet things, but cannot acquire them, and so you quarrel and fight. You do not have them, because you do not ask for them.

You must remain in union with me and I will remain in union with you. Just as no branch by itself can bear fruit unless it remains united to the vine, so you cannot unless you remain in union with me. 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.

What causes wars and quarrels among you? Is it not your different desires which are ever at war within your bodies? You desire things and cannot have them, and so you commit murder. You covet things, but cannot acquire them, and so you quarrel and fight. You do not have them, because you do not ask for them. You ask and fail to get them, because you ask with evil, selfish motives, to spend them on your pleasures.read more.
You faithless wives! Do you not know that the friendship of the world means enmity with God? So whoever wants to be a friend to the world puts himself down as an enemy to God.