4 Bible Verses about Why Prayer Is Unanswered

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it on your pleasures.

We know that God heareth not sinners; but, if any one is a worshiper of God, and does His will, him He heareth.

but let him ask in faith, nothing doubting; for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, wind-driven and tossed. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;

The Pharisee, having taken his stand, was praying these things with himself: 'God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax-collector! I fast twice on the Sabbath; I give a tenth of all that I acquire.'