5 Bible Verses about Praying Amiss

You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your evil desires.

Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them deliver you in the time of your oppression.”

He makes a god or his idol with the rest of it.
He bows down to it and worships;
He prays to it, “Save me, for you are my god.”

“Come, gather together,
and draw near, you fugitives of the nations.
Those who carry their wooden idols,
and pray to a god who cannot save,
have no knowledge.

The sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his god. They threw the ship’s cargo into the sea to lighten the load. Meanwhile, Jonah had gone down to the lowest part of the vessel and had stretched out and fallen into a deep sleep.