Prayer

Bible Verses about Prayer

• What should I do? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also. Otherwise, if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the "Amen" at your giving of thanks, seeing he doesn't know what you say?

  1 Corinthians 14:15·Verse page·Read context

• Don't be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;

  Ephesians 5:18·Verse page·Read context

• This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

  Philippians 1:9·Verse page·Read context

• May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

  1 Thessalonians 3:12·Verse page·Read context

• Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you. May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

  1 Thessalonians 3:11·Verse page·Read context

• To this end we also pray always for you that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,

  2 Thessalonians 1:11·Verse page·Read context

• Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you,

  2 Thessalonians 3:1·Verse page·Read context

• For, "He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit. Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it. For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."

  1 Peter 3:10·Verse page·Read context

• All the angels were standing around the throne, the elders, and the four living creatures; and they fell on their faces before his throne, and worshiped God, saying, "Amen! Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and might, be to our God forever and ever! Amen."

  Revelation 7:11·Verse page·Read context

• All the angels were standing around the throne, the elders, and the four living creatures; and they fell on their faces before his throne, and worshiped God, saying, "Amen! Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and might, be to our God forever and ever! Amen." One of the elders answered, saying to me, "These who are arrayed in the white robes, who are they, and where did they come from?"

  Revelation 7:11·Verse page·Read context

• Pray to the LORD; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.

  Exodus 9:28·Verse page·Read context

• Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you; but I will instruct you in the good and the right way. Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you. But if you shall still do wickedly, you shall be consumed, both you and your king.

  1 Samuel 12:23-25·Verse page·Read context

• 'I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD.'

  2 Kings 20:5·Verse page·Read context

• 'Let every wise-hearted man among you come, and make all that the LORD has commanded: the tabernacle, its outer covering, its roof, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets; the ark, and its poles, the mercy seat, the veil of the screen;

  Exodus 35:10·Verse page·Read context

• 'The LORD is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.' Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and just as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now." The LORD said, "I have pardoned according to your word;

  Numbers 14:18·Verse page·Read context

• 'You shall offer these to the LORD in your set feasts—in addition to your vows and your free will offerings—for your burnt offerings, your meal offerings, your drink offerings, and your peace offerings.'"

  Numbers 29:39·Verse page·Read context

• The king answered the man of God, "Now intercede for the favor of the LORD your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me." The man of God interceded for the king, and his hand was restored to him as it was before. The king said to the man of God, "Come home with me and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward."

  1 Kings 13:6·Verse page·Read context

• Ascribe to the LORD, you families of the peoples, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength!

  1 Chronicles 16:28·Verse page·Read context

• Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. Say, "Save us, God of our salvation! Gather us together and deliver us from the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to triumph in your praise."

  1 Chronicles 16:33·Verse page·Read context

• Then David gave to Solomon his son the plans for the porch of the temple, for its houses, for its treasuries, for its upper rooms, for its inner rooms, and for the place of the mercy seat;

  1 Chronicles 28:11·Verse page·Read context

• "Moreover, concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he comes from a far country for your great name's sake, and your mighty hand, and your outstretched arm; when they come and pray toward this house,

  2 Chronicles 6:32·Verse page·Read context

• "If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you send them, and they pray to you toward this city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name;

  2 Chronicles 6:34·Verse page·Read context

• When I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and mourned several days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven.

  Nehemiah 1:4·Verse page·Read context

• Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am faint. LORD, heal me, for my bones are troubled. My soul is also in great anguish. But you, LORD, how long?

  Psalms 6:2·Verse page·Read context

• Hear, LORD, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me, and answer me. When you said, "Seek my face," my heart said to you, "I will seek your face, LORD."

  Psalms 27:7·Verse page·Read context

• Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me. I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD. Hear, LORD, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me, and answer me. When you said, "Seek my face," my heart said to you, "I will seek your face, LORD."

  Psalms 27:6·Verse page·Read context

• "What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth? Hear, LORD, and have mercy on me. LORD, be my helper."

  Psalms 30:9·Verse page·Read context

• "What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth? Hear, LORD, and have mercy on me. LORD, be my helper." You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,

  Psalms 30:9·Verse page·Read context

• Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away and exist no more."

  Psalms 39:13·Verse page·Read context

• The LORD will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life. I will say to God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

  Psalms 42:8·Verse page·Read context

• Increase my honor and comfort me again. I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God. I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel. My lips shall shout for joy when I sing praises to you, for you have redeemed me.

  Psalms 71:21·Verse page·Read context

• Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD, or fully declare all his praise?

  Psalms 106:2·Verse page·Read context

• My eyes fail for your word. I say, "When will you comfort me?"

  Psalms 119:82·Verse page·Read context

• All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!

  Psalms 119:86·Verse page·Read context

• Fulfill your promise to your servant, that you may be feared. Take away my disgrace that I dread, for your ordinances are good. Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness.

  Psalms 119:38·Verse page·Read context

• At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you, because of your righteous ordinances. I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts. The earth, LORD, is full of your loving kindness. Teach me your statutes.

  Psalms 119:62·Verse page·Read context

• Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper. Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces. For my brothers and companions' sake, I will say, "Peace be within you."

  Psalms 122:6·Verse page·Read context

• Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don't let my head refuse it; yet my prayer is always against their evil deeds. Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will hear my words, for they are pleasant. As when one plows and breaks up the earth, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

  Psalms 141:5·Verse page·Read context

• Praise the LORD! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power!

  Psalms 150:1·Verse page·Read context

• Praise him for his mighty acts! Praise him according to his excellent greatness!

  Psalms 150:2·Verse page·Read context

• The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children. The LORD will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in the LORD's house. Hezekiah also had said, "Is it not the case that the living shall see life? The LORD will save me, and we will sing with stringed instruments all the days of our life in the LORD's house." Hezekiah said, "What sign will there be that I will go up to the LORD's house?

  Isaiah 38:19·Verse page·Read context

• Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of the LORD! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn't it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the dragon?

  Isaiah 51:9·Verse page·Read context

• Then you will call, and the LORD will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, 'Here I am.' "If you take away from among you the yoke, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedly,

  Isaiah 58:9·Verse page·Read context

• Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the LORD for it; for in its peace you will have peace.

  Jeremiah 29:7·Verse page·Read context

• Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord, listen and do. Don't defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name."

  Daniel 9:19·Verse page·Read context

• Then the LORD's angel replied, "O LORD of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?"

  Zechariah 1:12·Verse page·Read context

• 'You Bethlehem, land of Judah, are in no way least among the princes of Judah; for out of you shall come a governor who shall shepherd my people, Israel.'" Then Herod secretly called the wise men, and learned from them exactly what time the star appeared. He sent them to Bethlehem, and said, "Go and search diligently for the young child. When you have found him, bring me word, so that I also may come and worship him."

  Matthew 2:6·Verse page·Read context

• Again, a second time he went away and prayed, saying, "My Father, if this cup can't pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done."

  Matthew 26:42·Verse page·Read context

• Watch and pray, that you don't enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." Again, a second time he went away and prayed, saying, "My Father, if this cup can't pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done."

  Matthew 26:41·Verse page·Read context

• Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your transgressions."

  Mark 11:25·Verse page·Read context

• Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your transgressions." They came again to Jerusalem, and as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders came to him,

  Mark 11:25·Verse page·Read context

• The Pharisee stood and prayed by himself like this: 'God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men: extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.'

  Luke 18:11·Verse page·Read context

• "Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and prayed by himself like this: 'God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men: extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.'

  Luke 18:10·Verse page·Read context

• The Pharisee stood and prayed by himself like this: 'God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men: extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.' But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his chest, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!'

  Luke 18:11·Verse page·Read context

• As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen,

  Luke 19:37·Verse page·Read context

• When he rose up from his prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping because of grief,

  Luke 22:45·Verse page·Read context

• If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it. If you love me, keep my commandments. I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever:

  John 14:14·Verse page·Read context

• In that day you will ask in my name; and I don't say to you that I will pray to the Father for you,

  John 16:26·Verse page·Read context

• "Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who will believe in me through their word,

  John 17:20·Verse page·Read context

• Therefore, select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word."

  Acts 6:3·Verse page·Read context

• Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God. At about the ninth hour of the day, he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God coming to him and saying to him, "Cornelius!"

  Acts 10:1·Verse page·Read context

• In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor prefer one another, not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord, rejoicing in hope, enduring in troubles, continuing steadfastly in prayer,

  Romans 12:10·Verse page·Read context

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

  Romans 15:30·Verse page·Read context

• Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me, that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,

  Romans 15:30·Verse page·Read context

• When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to Spain. I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the Good News of Christ. Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

  Romans 15:28·Verse page·Read context

• In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

  Philippians 4:6-7·Verse page·Read context

• I sought the LORD, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

  Psalms 34:4·Verse page·Read context