5 Bible Verses about Praying Amiss

Ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your pleasures.

Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your affliction.

the residue of it he turns into god, into his graven image; he humbles himself before it and worships it and prays unto it and says, Deliver me; for thou art my god.

Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, all ye that are escaped of the Gentiles. They have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image and pray unto the god that does not save.

And the mariners were afraid, and everyone called unto his god, and they cast forth the vessels that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; he lay and was fast asleep.