'Pray' in the Bible

Now at this time Jesus went off to the mountain to pray, and He spent the whole night in prayer to God.

bless and show kindness to those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.

Now about eight days after these teachings, He took along Peter and John and James and went up on the mountain to pray.

He was saying to them, “The harvest is abundant [for there are many who need to hear the good news about salvation], but the workers [those available to proclaim the message of salvation] are few. Therefore, [prayerfully] ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.

It happened that while Jesus was praying in a certain place, after He finished, one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray just as John also taught his disciples.”

He said to them,“When you pray, say:‘Father, hallowed be Your name.Your kingdom come.

Now Jesus was telling the disciples a parable to make the point that at all times they ought to pray and not give up and lose heart,

“Two men went up into the temple [enclosure] to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

The Pharisee stood [ostentatiously] and began praying to himself [in a self-righteous way, saying]: ‘God, I thank You that I am not like the rest of men—swindlers, unjust (dishonest), adulterers—or even like this tax collector.

When He arrived at the place [called Gethsemane], He said to them, “Pray continually that you may not fall into temptation.”

and He said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you may not fall into temptation.”