4 Bible Verses about Why Prayer Is Unanswered

you do ask and you do not get it, because you ask with the wicked intention of spending it on your pleasures.

God, we know, does not listen to sinners; he listens to anyone who is devout and who obeys his will.

Only, let him ask in faith, with never a doubt; for the doubtful man is like surge of the sea whirled and swayed by the wind; that man need not imagine he will get anything from God,

The Pharisee stood up and prayed by himself as follows; 'I thank thee, O God, I am not like the rest of men, thieves, rogues, and immoral, or even like yon taxgatherer. Twice a week I fast; on all my income I pay tithes.'