What Does the Bible Say About Prayer?

The Bible records over 650 prayers. These verses show not just instructions about prayer, but actual prayers — raw, honest conversations between humans and God.

14 verses·6 eras·6 promises

Kingdom (~1000 BC)

Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
Psalms 141:2· DavidPrayer
Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me."
Psalms 50:15· GodPromise

Life of Jesus (~30 AD)

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."
"Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.'
Pray like this: 'Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
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.
Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a den of robbers!"

Early Church (~50 AD)

Apostolic Era (~50 AD)

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

Revelation (~95 AD)

He who testifies these things says, "Yes, I come quickly." Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus.

patriarchs

Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"
Genesis 18:25· AbrahamPrayer

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