What are some scriptures on prayer? | Bible verses about the Christian faith

2 Samuel 7:27

“For you, O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, have revealed this to your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house.’ Therefore, your servant found it in his heart to pray this prayer to you.”

1 Kings 8:28-29

“Yet regard the prayer of your servant and his supplication, O LORD my God, and listen to the cry and the prayer which your servant is praying before you today: that your eyes may be open towards this temple night and day, towards the place which you said, ‘My name shall be there, that you may hear the prayer which your servant makes towards this place.”

1 Kings 8:38

“Whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by anyone, or by all your people Israel, when each one knows the plague of his own heart and spreads out his hands towards this temple:”

1 Kings 8:45

“Then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.”

1 Kings 8:49

“Then hear in heaven,, your dwelling-place,, their prayer and supplication, and maintain their cause.”

1 Kings 8:54

“And so it was, when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to to the LORD, that he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.”

1 Kings 9:3

“And the LORD said to him, ‘I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made before me; I have sanctified this house which you have built to put my name there forever, and my eyes and my heart will be there perpetually.’”

1 Kings 19:4

“It may be that the LORD your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.”

2 Kings 20:5

“Return and tell Hezekiah,, the leader of my people, ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD”

2 Chronicles 6:19-20

“Yet regard the prayer of your servant and his supplication, O LORD my God, and listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant is praying before you: that your eyes may be open towards this temple day and night, towards the place where you said you would put your name, that you may hear the prayer which your servant prays towards this place.”

2 Chronicles 6:29-30

“Whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by anyone, or by all your people Israel, when each one knows his own burden and his own grief, and spreads out his hands to this house: then hear from heaven,, your dwelling-place, and forgive, and give to everyone according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you alone know the hearts of the sons of men).””

2 Chronicles 6:34-35

“When your people go out to battle against their enemies, wherever you send them, and when they pray to you towards this city which you have chosen and towards the temple which I have built for your name, then hear from heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.”

2 Chronicles 6:39-40

“Then hear from heaven,, your dwelling-place,, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have sinned against you. ‘Now, my God, I pray, let your eyes be open and let your ears be attentive to the prayer made in this place.’”

2 Chronicles 7:12

“Then the LORD appeared to Solomon by night and said to him, ‘I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice.’”

2 Chronicles 7:14-15

“If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to prayer made in this place.”

2 Chronicles 30:27

“Then the priests, the Levites, arose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard; and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling-place, to heaven.”

2 Chronicles 33:18-19

“Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel—indeed they are written in the book of the kings of Israel. Also his prayer and how God received his entreaty and all his sin and trespass and the sites where he built high places and set up wooden images and carved images before he was humbled—indeed, they are written among the sayings of Hozai.”

Nehemiah 1:5-6

“And I said, ‘I pray, LORD God of heaven, O great and awesome God, you who keep your covenant and mercy with those who love you and observe your commandments, please let your ear be attentive and your eyes open, that you may hear the prayer of your servant,, which I pray before you now, day and night, for the children of Israel,, your servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Both my father’s house and I have sinned.’”

Nehemiah 1:11

“‘O Lord, I pray, please let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer of your servants who desire to fear your name; and let your servant prosper this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.’ For I was the king’s cup bearer.”

Nehemiah 4:9

“Nevertheless we made our prayer to our God, and because of them we set a watch against them day and night.”

Job 16:16-17

“My face is flushed from weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death, although no violence is in my hands, and my prayer is pure.”

Job 22:27

“You will make your prayer to him, he will hear you, and you will pay your vows.”

Psalm 4:1

“Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved me when I was in distress; have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.”

Psalm 17:1

“Hear a just cause, O LORD; attend to my cry; give ear to my prayer that is not from deceitful lips.”

Psalm 35:13

“But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting; and my prayer would return to my own heart.”

Psalm 39:12

“Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; do not be silent at my tears; for I am a stranger with you, a sojourner, as all my fathers were.”

Psalm 42:8

“The LORD will command his loving-kindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me – prayer to the God of my life.”

Psalm 54:2

“Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.”

Psalm 55:1

“Give ear to my prayer, O God, and do not hide yourself from my supplication.”

Psalm 61:1

“Hear my cry, O God; attend to my prayer. From the end of the earth I will cry to you when my heart is overwhelmed; lead me to the rock that is higher than I.”

Psalm 65:2

“O you who hear prayer, to you all flesh will come.”

Psalm 66:19-20

“But certainly God has heard me; He has attended to the voice of my prayer. Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me!”

Psalm 69:13

“But as for me, my prayer is to you. O LORD, in the acceptable time; O God, in the multitude of your mercy, hear me in the truth of your salvation.”

Psalm 80:4

“O LORD God of hosts, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?”

Psalm 84:8

“O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob!”

Psalm 86:6-7

“Give ear, O LORD, to my prayer,, and attend to the voice of my supplications. In the day of my trouble I will call upon you, for you will answer me.”

Psalm 88:2-3

“Let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry. For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to the grave.”

Psalm 88:13

“But to you I have cried out, O LORD, and in the morning my prayer comes before you.”

Psalm 102:1-2

“Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come to you. Do not hide your face from me in the day of my trouble; incline your ear to me; in the day that I call, answer me speedily.”

Psalm 102:16-17

“For the LORD shall build up Zion; He shall appear in his glory. He shall regard the prayer of the destitute and shall not despise their prayer.”

Psalm 141:1-2

“LORD, I cry out to you; make haste to me! Give ear to my voice when I cry out to you. Let my prayer be set before you as incense, the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.”

Psalm 143:1-2

“Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications! In your faithfulness answer me, and in your righteousness. Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no one living is righteous.”

Proverbs 15:8

“The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.”

Proverbs 15:29

“The LORD is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.”

Proverbs 28:9

“One who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be an abomination.”

Isaiah 38:5-6

“Go and say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears. I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city”

Jeremiah 7:16

“Therefore do not pray for this people, do not lift up a cry or prayer for them, nor make intercession to me, for I will not hear you.”

Lamentations 3:8

“Even when I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.”

Lamentations 3:44

“You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that prayer should not pass through.”

Daniel 9:3

“Then I set my face towards the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.”

Daniel 9:17

“Now therefore, our God, hear the prayer of your servant and his supplications, and for the Lord’s sake cause your face to shine on your sanctuary, which is desolate.”

Daniel 9:20-21

“Now while I was speaking, praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God, yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, reached me about the time of the evening offering.”

Jonah 2:7

“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD; and my prayer went up to you, into your holy temple.”

Matthew 21:13

“And he said to them, ‘It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.’’”

Matthew 21:22

“And all things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

Mark 9:29

“So he said to them, ‘This kind can come out by nothing but prayer and fasting.’”

Luke 1:13

“But the angel said to him, ‘Do not be afraid, Zacharias, for your prayer is heard; and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.’”

Luke 2:36-37

“Now there was one, Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was of a great age and had lived with a husband seven years from her virginity, and this woman was a widow of about eighty-four years who did not depart from the temple but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.”

Luke 6:12

“Now it came to pass in those days that he went out to the mountain to pray and continued all night in prayer to God.”

Luke 22:45

“When he rose up from prayer and had come to his disciples, he found them sleeping from sorrow. Then he said to them, ‘Why do you sleep? Rise and pray, lest you enter into temptation.’”

Acts 1:14

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

Acts 3:1

“Now Peter and John went up together to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.”

Acts 6:4

“But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”

Acts 10:30-31

“And Cornelius said, ‘Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing and said, “Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your alms are remembered in the sight of God.”’”

Acts 12:5

“Peter was therefore kept in prison, but constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church.”

Acts 14:23

“So when they had appointed elders in every church and prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they believed.”

Acts 16:13

“And on the Sabbath day we went out of the city to the riverside, where prayer was customarily made; and we sat down and spoke to the women whom we met there.”

Acts 16:16

“Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling.”

Romans 12:12

“Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer.”

1 Corinthians 7:5

“Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.”

Ephesians 6:8

“Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints—”

Philippians 4:6

“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”

Colossians 4:2

“Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving.”

1 Timothy 4:4-5

“For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving; for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.”

James 5:14-16

“Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.”

1 Peter 3:12

“For the eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayers, but the face of the LORD is against those who do evil.”

I hope this is helpful. God bless you.

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