10 Bible Verses about Praying Behind Closed Doors

But when you pray, go into your private room, shut your door, and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

“Whenever you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by people. I assure you: They’ve got their reward!

so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Go, my people, enter your rooms
and close your doors behind you.
Hide for a little while until the wrath has passed.

At the same time, pray also for us that God may open a door to us for the message, to speak the mystery of the Messiah, for which I am in prison,

So he went in, closed the door behind the two of them, and prayed to the Lord.

In the evening of that first day of the week, the disciples were gathered together with the doors locked because of their fear of the Jews. Then Jesus came, stood among them, and said to them, “Peace to you!”

Then go in and shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour oil into all these containers. Set the full ones to one side.”

“Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of people, to be seen by them. Otherwise, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

While He was praying in private and His disciples were with Him, He asked them, “Who do the crowds say that I am?”