Bible Verses About Prayer

The Bible teaches prayer as asking, thanking, confessing, and keeping company with God. Matthew 6:9–13 records the Lord’s Prayer; Philippians 4:6 says to let requests be made known to God, with thanksgiving; and 1 Thessalonians 5:16–18 says to pray without ceasing. Other verses promise that God hears, invite people to ask and seek, and describe prayer for one another.

Verses

Matthew 6:9–13. 9 Pray like this: “‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. 10 Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 11 Give us today our daily bread. 12 Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors. 13 Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’

Philippians 4:6. In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

1 Thessalonians 5:16–18. 16 Always rejoice. 17 Pray without ceasing. 18 In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

Matthew 6:6. But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

Matthew 7:7–8. 7 “Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. 8 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

Jeremiah 29:12. You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

1 John 5:14–15. 14 This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us. 15 And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.

James 5:16. Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

Romans 12:12. rejoicing in hope, enduring in troubles, continuing steadfastly in prayer,

Mark 11:24. Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.

Luke 18:1. He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray and not give up,

Psalm 145:18. Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Hebrews 4:16. Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.

Colossians 4:2. Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

John 15:7. If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

Matthew 21:22. All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

1 Timothy 2:1–2. 1 I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks be made for all men, 2 for kings and all who are in high places, that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.