100 Bible Verses about Lord Hear Our Prayers

Psalm 66:18 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Proverbs 28:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

Isaiah 59:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.

Proverbs 15:29 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

James 4:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

James 5:16 ESV / 7 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.

1 Thessalonians 5:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Pray without ceasing,

John 9:31 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.

Mark 11:24 ESV / 6 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.

1 John 5:14 ESV / 5 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.

1 Peter 3:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

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

Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 5 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.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Luke 18:1 ESV / 5 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 6:12 ESV / 5 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.

Matthew 7:7 ESV / 5 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.

Isaiah 65:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Before they call I will answer; while they are yet speaking I will hear.

Isaiah 1:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.

Psalm 34:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous and his ears toward their cry.

1 John 5:14-15 ESV / 4 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 3:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.

Philippians 4:6 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.

Romans 8:26-27 ESV / 4 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.

Romans 8:26 ESV / 4 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.

John 14:13 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.

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Luke 5:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But he would withdraw to desolate places and pray.

Mark 1:35 ESV / 4 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 6:6 ESV / 4 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.

Jeremiah 33:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 4 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.

Deuteronomy 1:45 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And you returned and wept before the Lord, but the Lord did not listen to your voice or give ear to you.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 3 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 5:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

James 1:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

Hebrews 4:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

1 Timothy 2:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Colossians 4:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 3 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.

Romans 10:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Romans 8:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

John 16:13 ESV / 3 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 15:7 ESV / 3 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 / 3 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.

John 14:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Mark 13:1-37 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And as he came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Look, Teacher, what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!” And Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” And as he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign when all these things are about to be accomplished?” And Jesus began to say to them, “See that no one leads you astray. ...

Mark 11:25 ESV / 3 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 21:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

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

And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

Matthew 6:9-13 ESV / 3 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.

Matthew 6:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.

Matthew 6:7 ESV / 3 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.

Zechariah 7:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“As I called, and they would not hear, so they called, and I would not hear,” says the Lord of hosts,

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

Then they will cry to the Lord, but he will not answer them; he will hide his face from them at that time, because they have made their deeds evil.

Isaiah 29:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the Lord said: “Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men,

Proverbs 21:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.

Psalm 65:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

O you who hear prayer, to you shall all flesh come.

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

But know that the Lord has set apart the godly for himself; the Lord hears when I call to him.

Psalm 4:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have given me relief when I was in distress. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer!

Revelation 2:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands. “‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary. But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. ...

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

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 1:19-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. ...

James 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.

James 1:6-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;

Hebrews 10:22 ESV / 2 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.

Hebrews 5:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

1 Timothy 2:1-2 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.

Colossians 3:1-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

Colossians 2:20-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations— “Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch” (referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to human precepts and teachings? These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.

Colossians 2:16-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind, and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.

Colossians 2:13-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.

Colossians 1:1-4:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ...

Ephesians 6:18 ESV / 2 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,

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Romans 8:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

John 16:23 ESV / 2 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.

John 16:23-24 ESV / 2 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. Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.

John 14:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

John 14:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

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

During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,

John 10:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

John 8:47 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.”

John 6:63 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

John 5:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

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

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Luke 18:9-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 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. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ 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 11:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

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

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

Matthew 26:41 ESV / 2 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 23:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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 14:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone,

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

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 7:7-8 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.