4 Bible Verses about Why Prayer Is Unanswered

or you pray and yet do not receive, because you pray wrongly, your object being to waste what you get on some pleasure or another.

We know that God does not listen to bad people, but that if any one is a God-fearing man and obeys Him, to him He listens.

But let him ask in faith and have no doubts; for he who has doubts is like the surge of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed into spray. A person of that sort must not expect to receive anything from the Lord--

The Pharisee, standing erect, prayed as follows by himself: "'O God, I thank Thee that I am not like other people--I am not a thief nor a cheat nor an adulterer, nor do I even resemble this tax-gatherer. I fast twice a week. I pay the tithe on all my gains.'