5 Bible Verses about Praying Amiss

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask wickedly that ye might expend upon your sensual pleasures.

Go and cry to the gods, which ye chose among them; they shall save for you in time of your straits.

And its remainder he made for a god, for his carved image: he will fall down to it, and he will worship and pray to it, and say, Deliver me, for thou my god.

Assemble ye together and come; draw ye near together, the escaped of the nations: they knew not lifting up the wood of their carved image, and praying to God he will not save.

And the seamen will fear, and they will cry each to his God, and they cast down the vessels which were in the ship into the sea to lighten from them. And Jonah went down to the sides of the ship, and he will lie down and snore.