19 Bible Verses about Saying Repeatedly

"And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.

Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.

And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, 'Give me justice against my adversary.'

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

So they were saying, "What does he mean by 'a little while'? We do not know what he is talking about."

And as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not listen to her, to lie beside her or to be with her.

"For twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, to this day, the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken persistently to you, but you have not listened.

The command that Jonadab the son of Rechab gave to his sons, to drink no wine, has been kept, and they drink none to this day, for they have obeyed their father's command. I have spoken to you persistently, but you have not listened to me.

They have turned to me their back and not their face. And though I have taught them persistently, they have not listened to receive instruction.

So, leaving them again, he went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same words again.

And again he went away and prayed, saying the same words.

And he went to the other son and said the same. And he answered, 'I go, sir,' but did not go.

And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said to them again, "Children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom of God!

Finally, my brothers,rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you.

And he prayed to the LORD and said, "O LORD, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster.

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked. But others said, "We will hear you again about this."

And the people stood by, watching, but the rulers scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others; let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, his Chosen One!"

He made many stumble, and they fell, and they said one to another, 'Arise, and let us go back to our own people and to the land of our birth, because of the sword of the oppressor.'

And he withdrew from them about a stone's throw, and knelt down and prayed,