Bible Verses About Prayer

Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.

And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Pray without ceasing.

Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly .

And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.

Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;

Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

Rejoice evermore.

If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.

Give us this day our daily bread.

Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:

For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us.