100 Bible Verses about 3 Types Of Prayer

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Ephesians 6:18 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,

Mark 11:24 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

James 5:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Romans 8:26-27 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

1 Timothy 2:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people,

1 Timothy 2:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;

Matthew 21:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”

Romans 8:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.

Mark 11:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”

Matthew 6:9-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

James 4:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

Hebrews 10:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not be anxious about anything, 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 your minds in Christ Jesus.

John 15:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

John 14:13-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.

Matthew 26:39 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”

Matthew 7:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

Matthew 6:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

Matthew 6:5-8 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

Psalm 95:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!

Psalm 66:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

Psalm 51:1-19 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. ...

1 Kings 8:54 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now as Solomon finished offering all this prayer and plea to the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, where he had knelt with hands outstretched toward heaven.

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

1 Peter 2:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

James 5:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Hebrews 13:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

1 Thessalonians 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Pray without ceasing,

Ephesians 5:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Acts 9:40 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But Peter put them all outside, and knelt down and prayed; and turning to the body he said, “Tabitha, arise.” And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter she sat up.

Acts 2:42 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.

Acts 1:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

John 17:1-26 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed. ...

John 16:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.

Luke 6:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Mark 16:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;

Mark 9:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he said to them, “This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer.”

Matthew 26:41 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Matthew 7:7-8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

Matthew 6:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Matthew 6:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Psalm 63:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If my people who are called by my name 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.

1 Kings 8:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven,

Exodus 4:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord had visited the people of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped.

Genesis 4:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

To Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that time people began to call upon the name of the Lord.

Jude 1:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,

1 John 5:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

1 John 5:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

James 5:16-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.

James 5:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

1 Timothy 2:1-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Colossians 4:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.

Colossians 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Philippians 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved.

Ephesians 3:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,

Ephesians 2:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

Galatians 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”

2 Corinthians 12:7-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Corinthians 11:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.

1 Corinthians 14:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful. What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Romans 8:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

Acts 13:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a lifelong friend of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off.

Acts 12:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.

Acts 12:1-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

About that time Herod the king laid violent hands on some who belonged to the church. He killed James the brother of John with the sword, and when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. This was during the days of Unleavened Bread. And when he had seized him, he put him in prison, delivering him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him out to the people. So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church. ...

Acts 10:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

Acts 7:60 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

Acts 6:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

These they set before the apostles, and they prayed and laid their hands on them.

Acts 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.

John 16:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

John 15:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

John 4:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.

Luke 22:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Luke 22:41 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he withdrew from them about a stone's throw, and knelt down and prayed,

Luke 22:39-46 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he came out and went, as was his custom, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed him. And when he came to the place, he said to them, “Pray that you may not enter into temptation.” And he withdrew from them about a stone's throw, and knelt down and prayed, saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.” And there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening him. ...

Luke 18:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Luke 18:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

Luke 18:1-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’” ...

Luke 18:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.

Luke 11:5-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he said to them, “Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves, for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him’; and he will answer from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything’? I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence he will rise and give him whatever he needs. And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. ...

Mark 14:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”

Mark 14:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And going a little farther, he fell on the ground and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him.

Mark 1:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.

Matthew 18:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.

Matthew 17:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 9:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”

Matthew 8:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And to the centurion Jesus said, “Go; let it be done for you as you have believed.” And the servant was healed at that very moment.

Matthew 7:7-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

Matthew 6:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

Matthew 6:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Matthew 6:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

Matthew 6:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.

Matthew 5:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,