7 Bible Verses about Praying Behind Closed Doors

But when you pray, go into your own room, and shut the door, and pray to your Father who is unseen, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.

"When you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, for they like to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the squares, to let people see them. I tell you, that is the only reward they will get!

so that your charity may be secret, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.

Pray for me too, that God may give me an opening for the message, and let me tell the secret of Christ on account of which I am kept in prison

When it was evening on that first day after the Sabbath, and the doors of the house where the disciples met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came in and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you!"

"But take care not to do your good deeds in public for people to see, for, if you do, you will get no reward from your Father in heaven.

Once when he was praying by himself, with only the disciples near him, he asked them, "Who do the people say that I am?"