19 Bible Verses about Saying Repeatedly

“And when you are praying, do not use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they suppose that they will be heard for their many words.

He who conceals a transgression seeks love,
But he who repeats a matter separates intimate friends.

There was a widow in that city, and she kept coming to him, saying, ‘Give me legal protection from my opponent.’

For John had been saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”

So they were saying, “What is this that He says, ‘A little while’? We do not know what He is talking about.”

As she spoke to Joseph day after day, he did not listen to her to lie beside her or be with her.

“From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years the word of the Lord has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.

“The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, which he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are observed. So they do not drink wine to this day, for they have obeyed their father’s command. But I have spoken to you again and again; yet you have not listened to Me.

They have turned their back to Me and not their face; though I taught them, teaching again and again, they would not listen and receive instruction.

And He left them again, and went away and prayed a third time, saying the same thing once more.

Again He went away and prayed, saying the same words.

The man came to the second and said the same thing; and he answered, ‘I will, sir’; but he did not go.

The disciples were amazed at His words. But Jesus *answered again and *said to them, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!

Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things again is no trouble to me, and it is a safeguard for you.

He prayed to the Lord and said, “Please Lord, was not this what I said while I was still in my own country? Therefore in order to forestall this I fled to Tarshish, for I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, and one who relents concerning calamity.

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some began to sneer, but others said, “We shall hear you again concerning this.”

And the people stood by, looking on. And even the rulers were sneering at Him, saying, “He saved others; let Him save Himself if this is the Christ of God, His Chosen One.”

“They have repeatedly stumbled;
Indeed, they have fallen one against another.
Then they said, ‘Get up! And let us go back
To our own people and our native land
Away from the sword of the oppressor.’

And He withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, and He knelt down and began to pray,