'Prayers' in the Bible

The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

“So when you spread out your hands in prayer,I will hide My eyes from you;Yes, even though you multiply prayers,I will not listen.Your hands are covered with blood.

[Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense you make long prayers; therefore you will receive greater condemnation.]

who devour widows’ houses, and for appearance’s sake offer long prayers; these will receive greater condemnation.”

and then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers.

And they said to Him, “The disciples of John often fast and offer prayers, the disciples of the Pharisees also do the same, but Yours eat and drink.”

who devour widows’ houses, and for appearance’s sake offer long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”

And fixing his gaze on him and being much alarmed, he said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and alms have ascended as a memorial before God.

always in my prayers making request, if perhaps now at last by the will of God I may succeed in coming to you.

Now I urge you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

you also joining in helping us through your prayers, so that thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf for the favor bestowed on us through the prayers of many.

do not cease giving thanks for you, while making mention of you in my prayers;

for I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayers and the provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

Epaphras, who is one of your number, a bondslave of Jesus Christ, sends you his greetings, always laboring earnestly for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.

We give thanks to God always for all of you, making mention of you in our prayers;

First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men,

Now she who is a widow indeed and who has been left alone, has fixed her hope on God and continues in entreaties and prayers night and day.

I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience the way my forefathers did, as I constantly remember you in my prayers night and day,

I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,

At the same time also prepare me a lodging, for I hope that through your prayers I will be given to you.

In the days of His flesh, He offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His piety.

You husbands in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with someone weaker, since she is a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

When He had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

Another angel came and stood at the altar, holding a golden censer; and much incense was given to him, so that he might add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne.

And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel’s hand.