'Prayers' in the Bible

[“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You devour widows’ houses and make long prayers just for show. This is why you will receive a harsher punishment.]

They devour widows’ houses and say long prayers just for show. These will receive harsher punishment.”

and was a widow for 84 years. She did not leave the temple complex, serving God night and day with fasting and prayers.

Then they said to Him, “John’s disciples fast often and say prayers, and those of the Pharisees do the same, but Yours eat and drink.”

They devour widows’ houses and say long prayers just for show. These will receive greater punishment.”

And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread, and to the prayers.

Looking intently at him, he became afraid and said, “What is it, lord?”The angel told him, “Your prayers and your acts of charity have come up as a memorial offering before God.

always asking in my prayers that if it is somehow in God’s will, I may now at last succeed in coming to you.

Now I appeal to you, brothers, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to join with me in fervent prayers to God on my behalf.

while you join in helping us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gift that came to us through the prayers of many.

And they will have deep affection for you in their prayers on your behalf because of the surpassing grace of God in you.

I never stop giving thanks for you as I remember you in my prayers.

because I know this will lead to my deliverance through your prayers and help from the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a slave of Christ Jesus, greets you. He is always contending for you in his prayers, so that you can stand mature and fully assured in everything God wills.

We always thank God for all of you, remembering you constantly in our prayers.

First of all, then, I urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone,

The real widow, left all alone, has put her hope in God and continues night and day in her petitions and prayers;

I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, when I constantly remember you in my prayers night and day.

I always thank my God when I mention you in my prayers,

But meanwhile, also prepare a guest room for me, for I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you.

During His earthly life, He offered prayers and appeals with loud cries and tears to the One who was able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.

Husbands, in the same way, live with your wives with an understanding of their weaker nature yet showing them honor as coheirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

When He took the scroll, the four living creatures and the 24 elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and gold bowls filled with incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

Another angel, with a gold incense burner, came and stood at the altar. He was given a large amount of incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the gold altar in front of the throne.

The smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up in the presence of God from the angel’s hand.