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100 Bible Verses about The Importance Of Prayer

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 348 helpful votes

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

Colossians 4:2 ESV / 341 helpful votes

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

Psalm 145:18 ESV / 277 helpful votes

The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

1 Thessalonians 5:17 ESV / 223 helpful votes

Pray without ceasing,

Ephesians 6:18 ESV / 211 helpful votes

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,

James 5:16 ESV / 209 helpful votes

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.

Mark 11:24 ESV / 196 helpful votes

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

Romans 12:12 ESV / 193 helpful votes

Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.

Romans 8:26 ESV / 181 helpful votes

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.

Luke 18:1 ESV / 177 helpful votes

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

James 5:13 ESV / 176 helpful votes

Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.

Acts 2:42 ESV / 172 helpful votes

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

Jeremiah 29:12 ESV / 152 helpful votes

Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.

Matthew 6:6 ESV / 139 helpful votes

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.

Matthew 6:7 ESV / 138 helpful votes

“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.

John 17:1-26 ESV / 130 helpful votes

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. ...

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 ESV / 128 helpful votes

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

1 John 5:14 ESV / 122 helpful votes

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

Matthew 26:41 ESV / 119 helpful votes

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

Hebrews 4:16 ESV / 118 helpful votes

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.

2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 116 helpful votes

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.

John 15:7 ESV / 115 helpful votes

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

Jeremiah 33:3 ESV / 113 helpful votes

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

Matthew 7:7-8 ESV / 112 helpful votes

“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.

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 110 helpful votes

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.

Matthew 21:22 ESV / 109 helpful votes

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

Acts 1:14 ESV / 108 helpful votes

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

James 4:2 ESV / 107 helpful votes

You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

Matthew 6:9-13 ESV / 107 helpful votes

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 / 106 helpful votes

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

1 Timothy 2:8 ESV / 103 helpful votes

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

Matthew 6:5-8 ESV / 97 helpful votes

“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.

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 95 helpful votes

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.

1 John 5:15 ESV / 94 helpful votes

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.

Luke 6:12 ESV / 90 helpful votes

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

James 1:5 ESV / 89 helpful votes

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

Matthew 5:44 ESV / 89 helpful votes

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

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 88 helpful votes

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

Luke 11:1 ESV / 87 helpful votes

Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.”

John 14:14 ESV / 86 helpful votes

If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.

Matthew 7:11 ESV / 85 helpful votes

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!

1 John 1:9 ESV / 80 helpful votes

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

Psalm 18:6 ESV / 80 helpful votes

In my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.

2 Timothy 3:1-7 ESV / 79 helpful votes

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. ...

Proverbs 15:29 ESV / 75 helpful votes

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

Psalm 4:1 ESV / 75 helpful votes

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!

John 15:1-3 ESV / 74 helpful votes

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.

John 14:13 ESV / 74 helpful votes

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

Acts 12:5 ESV / 73 helpful votes

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

Luke 11:9 ESV / 72 helpful votes

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.

Psalm 141:2 ESV / 72 helpful votes

Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!

Psalm 5:3 ESV / 71 helpful votes

O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.

Matthew 6:9 ESV / 69 helpful votes

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

James 1:6 ESV / 68 helpful votes

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.

Luke 11:2-4 ESV / 68 helpful votes

And he said to them, “When you pray, say: “Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation.”

Psalm 102:17 ESV / 67 helpful votes

He regards the prayer of the destitute and does not despise their prayer.

Acts 4:31 ESV / 65 helpful votes

And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.

John 15:16 ESV / 65 helpful votes

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.

Luke 5:16 ESV / 65 helpful votes

But he would withdraw to desolate places and pray.

James 5:14-15 ESV / 64 helpful votes

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

Romans 1:9-10 ESV / 64 helpful votes

For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you always in my prayers, asking that somehow by God's will I may now at last succeed in coming to you.

Mark 11:25 ESV / 63 helpful votes

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.”

Psalm 66:17 ESV / 62 helpful votes

I cried to him with my mouth, and high praise was on my tongue.

Matthew 18:20 ESV / 61 helpful votes

For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”

Psalm 17:6 ESV / 60 helpful votes

I call upon you, for you will answer me, O God; incline your ear to me; hear my words.

Psalm 39:12 ESV / 58 helpful votes

“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace at my tears! For I am a sojourner with you, a guest, like all my fathers.

1 Peter 4:7 ESV / 57 helpful votes

The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 55 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

1 John 5:14-15 ESV / 53 helpful votes

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 Timothy 2:1-2 ESV / 51 helpful votes

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.

1 John 3:22 ESV / 50 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 3:12 ESV / 49 helpful votes

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.”

Luke 11:11-13 ESV / 49 helpful votes

What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

Matthew 6:8 ESV / 49 helpful votes

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

Psalm 66:18 ESV / 49 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 3:2 ESV / 48 helpful votes

When they see your respectful and pure conduct.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 48 helpful votes

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.

Acts 16:25 ESV / 48 helpful votes

About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,

Mark 11:2 ESV / 48 helpful votes

And said to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it.

Matthew 18:19-20 ESV / 48 helpful votes

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. For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”

Matthew 7:7 ESV / 48 helpful votes

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

Matthew 6:12 ESV / 48 helpful votes

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

Philippians 4:1-23 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved. I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord. Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life. Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; ...

Ephesians 1:18 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,

Acts 12:2 ESV / 46 helpful votes

He killed James the brother of John with the sword,

John 3:16-17 ESV / 45 helpful votes

“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.

Mark 1:35 ESV / 45 helpful votes

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.

Luke 6:27-28 ESV / 43 helpful votes

“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.

Matthew 6:10 ESV / 43 helpful votes

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

1 John 5:16 ESV / 42 helpful votes

If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that.

Jeremiah 29:2 ESV / 42 helpful votes

This was after King Jeconiah and the queen mother, the eunuchs, the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metal workers had departed from Jerusalem.

Proverbs 15:8 ESV / 42 helpful votes

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him.

James 5:13-14 ESV / 41 helpful votes

Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise. 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.

Matthew 6:2 ESV / 41 helpful votes

“Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

Mark 9:24 ESV / 40 helpful votes

Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 39 helpful votes

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,

Romans 8:26-27 ESV / 39 helpful votes

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.

Luke 11:2 ESV / 38 helpful votes

And he said to them, “When you pray, say: “Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come.

Job 22:27 ESV / 38 helpful votes

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

James 5:16-18 ESV / 36 helpful votes

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.

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