Bible Verses about Prayer

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• Always rejoice. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.
  1 Thessalonians 5:16-18joygratitude
• 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 4:6-7gratitudeworryingfear
• This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
  1 John 5:14trustlistening
• Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving.
  Colossians 4:2gratitude
• You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
  Jeremiah 29:12worshiplistening
• Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.
  Mark 11:24faithreceiving
• Rejoicing in hope, enduring in troubles, continuing steadfastly in prayer.
  Romans 12:12joypatience
• Yahweh is near to all those who call on him,
  to all who call on him in truth.
  Psalm 145:18trustreliability
• But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
  Acts 16:25worshiplisteningpraise
• Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.
  Jeremiah 33:3understandinglistening
• In praying, don’t use vain repetitions as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.
  Matthew 6:7speakingthoughts
• Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.
  Hebrews 4:16gracemercy
• For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.
  Matthew 18:20Jesuscommunitychurch
• In my distress I called on Yahweh,
  and cried to my God.
  He heard my voice out of his temple.
  My cry before him came into his ears.
  Psalm 18:6speakinglistening
• But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
  Matthew 6:6rewardFather
• And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.
  1 John 5:15trustlistening
• Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
  James 5:16righteousnesshealingsickness
• But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
  James 1:6trustfaith
• But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
  1 Peter 4:7second comingend timesrest
• You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
  John 15:16obediencecallingfruitfulness
• I cried to him with my mouth.
  He was extolled with my tongue.
  Psalm 66:17worshippraisesinging
• All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.
  Matthew 21:22reliabilityfaith
• All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
  Acts 1:14community
• Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
  John 14:13JesusFather
• But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.
  Luke 6:27-28obedienceblessing