4 Bible Verses about Why Prayer Is Unanswered

you ask, and you receive not, because you ask wickedly, that you may expend it in your pleasures.

We know that God hears not sinners: but if any one may be a worshiper of God, and do His will, He hears him.

But let him ask in faith, doubting as to nothing; for he that doubts is like unto a wave of the sea driven by the winds and tossed by the tempest. For let not that man think that he will receive anything from the Lord,

The Pharisee standing was praying in these words, God, I thank thee because I am not like the rest of the men, extortioners, unjust, adulterous, or even as this publican: I fast twice per week; I give tithes of all things so many as I possess.