5 Bible Verses about Praying Amiss

You ask for something but do not get it because you ask for it for the wrong reason for your own pleasure.

Go and cry out to the gods that you have chosen for yourselves. Let them deliver you in your time of trouble."

And the rest of it he makes into a god. To blocks of wood he bows down, worships, prays, and says, "Save me, since you are my god."

"Gather together and come; draw near and enter, your fugitives from the nations. Those who carry around their wooden idols know nothing, nor do those who keep praying to a god that cannot save.

At this point the mariners became terrified, and each man cried out to his gods. They began to throw the cargo into the sea in order to lighten the vessel. But Jonah had gone down into the vessel's hold, had lain down, and was fast asleep.