5 Bible Verses about Praying Amiss

Ye ask, and do not receive, because ye ask wrongly, so that ye may spend on your pleasures.

Go and cry to the gods which ye have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress.

And the residue of it he makes a god, even his graven image. He falls down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me, for thou are my god.

Assemble yourselves and come, draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations. They have no knowledge that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray to a god that cannot save.

Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man to his god. And they cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it to them. But Jonah was gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he lay, and w