5 Bible Verses about Praying Amiss

You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly (with bad motives) that you may spend it on your pleasures.

Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen! Let them save you in your time of trouble.

But the rest of the wood they make into gods, carved statues. They bow to them and worship them. They pray to them and say: Rescue us, because you are our gods.

Come here, you refugees from the nations. Ignorant people carry wooden idols and pray to gods that cannot save anyone.

The sailors were so afraid that each man cried out to his own god. They threw the cargo that was on the ship into the sea to lighten the load. At that time Jonah was fast asleep down in the innermost parts of the ship.