1281 verses about Prayer

Pray that your flight will not be in the winter, nor on a Sabbath,

Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I go there and pray.”

He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled.

Then he said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me.”

He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “What, couldn’t you watch with me for one hour?

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.”

He came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.

He left them again, went away, and prayed a third time, saying the same words.

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are dying?”

and begged him much, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may be made healthy, and live.”

After he had taken leave of them, he went up the mountain to pray.

Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. She begged him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter.

Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, “I believe. Help my unbelief!”

When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we cast it out?”

He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting.”

He said to them, “What do you want me to do for you?”

Many rebuked him, that he should be quiet, but he cried out much more, “You son of David, have mercy on me!”

He taught, saying to them, “Isn’t it written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?’ Isaiah 56:7 But you have made it a den of robbers!” Jeremiah 7:11

For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says.

Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.

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.

those who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”

Pray that your flight won’t be in the winter.

Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is.

They came to a place which was named Gethsemane. He said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I pray.”

He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch.”

He went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him.

He said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me. However, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn’t you watch one hour?

Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Again he went away, and prayed, saying the same words.

Again he returned, and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy, and they didn’t know what to answer him.

He came the third time, and said to them, “Sleep on now, and take your rest. It is enough. The hour has come. Behold, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

according to the custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to enter into the temple of the Lord and burn incense.

The whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense.

An angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the right side of the altar of incense.

But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.

Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened,

When it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited place, and the multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and held on to him, so that he wouldn’t go away from them.

But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.

They said to him, “Why do John’s disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?”

In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.

bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.

Behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus’ feet, and begged him to come into his house,

He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to the sky, he blessed them, and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude.

As he was praying alone, the disciples were with him, and he asked them, “Who do the multitudes say that I am?”

About eight days after these sayings, he took with him Peter, John, and James, and went up onto the mountain to pray.

As he was praying, the appearance of his face was altered, and his clothing became white and dazzling.

Now Peter and those who were with him were heavy with sleep, but when they were fully awake, they saw his glory, and the two men who stood with him.

Behold, a man from the crowd called out, saying, “Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child.

Then he said to them, “The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.

When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”

He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

Give us day by day our daily bread.

Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’”

He said to them, “Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight, and tell him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

and he from within will answer and say, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can’t get up and give it to you’?

I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

“Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say.”

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”

They lifted up their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, ‘Defend me from my adversary!’

He wouldn’t for a while, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,

yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.’”

Won’t God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

“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 to 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.

But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

He cried out, “Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!”

Those who led the way rebuked him, that he should be quiet; but he cried out all the more, “You son of David, have mercy on me!”

“What do you want me to do?” He said, “Lord, that I may see again.”

saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’ Isaiah 56:7 but you have made it a ‘den of robbers’!” Jeremiah 7:11

who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation.”

Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Every day Jesus was teaching in the temple, and every night he would go out and spend the night on the mountain that is called Olivet.

but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”

He came out, and went, as his custom was, to the Mount of Olives. His disciples also followed him.

When he was at the place, he said to them, “Pray that you don’t enter into temptation.”

He was withdrawn from them about a stone’s throw, and he knelt down and prayed,

saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”

An angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him.

Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.

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

and said to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”

He said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.”

When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him. Psalm 66:18; Proverbs 15:29; 28:9

Even now I know that, whatever you ask of God, God will give you.”

So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, “Father, I thank you that you listened to me.

I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude standing around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.”

Father, glorify your name!” Then there came a voice out of the sky, saying, “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”